The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is PossibleAs seen on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday A beacon of hope in the face of our current world crises, this uplifting book demonstrates how embracing our interconnectedness is key to world transformation In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected transformational power. By fully embracing and practicing this principle of interconnectedness—called interbeing—we become more effective agents of change and have a stronger positive influence on the world. Throughout the book, Eisenstein relates real-life stories showing how small, individual acts of courage, kindness, and self-trust can change our culture’s guiding narrative of separation, which, he shows, has generated the present planetary crisis. He brings to conscious awareness a deep wisdom we all innately know: until we get ourselves in order, any action we take—no matter how good our intentions—will ultimately be wrong-headed and wrong-hearted. Above all, Eisenstein invites us to embrace a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we can finally create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. With chapters covering separation, interbeing, despair, hope, pain, pleasure, consciousness, and many more, the book invites us to let the old Story of Separation fall away so that we can stand firmly in a Story of Interbeing. |
Contents
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Insanity | 28 |
Force | 32 |
Science | 37 |
Climate | 45 |
Despair | 52 |
Struggle | 140 |
Pain | 147 |
Pleasure | 152 |
Judgment 16 | 161 |
Hate | 167 |
Righteousness | 172 |
Psychopathy | 180 |
Evil | 191 |
Hope | 57 |
Morphogenesis | 61 |
Naiveté | 76 |
Spirit | 81 |
Orthodoxy | 88 |
Newness | 95 |
Urgency I | 102 |
Scarcity IoS Doing | 116 |
Attention | 126 |
Story | 212 |
Disruption | 219 |
Miracle | 234 |
Truth | 240 |
Consciousness | 250 |
Destiny | 255 |
Initiation | 263 |
About the Author | 273 |
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