This is the true revolution: not a superficial overthrow of whatever powers happen to be, but a radically new understanding of self and world.… Why is such a deep revolution necessary? … A revolution that leaves our sense of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age. Fortunately, this deepest of all possible revolutions is inevitable.… When at last the futility of controlling reality becomes apparent, when at last the burden of maintaining an artificial self separate from nature becomes too heavy to bear any longer, when at last we realize that our wealth has bankrupted us of life, then a million tiny revolutions will converge into a vast planetary shift, a rapid phase transition into a new mode of being.
—CHARLES EISENSTEIN, SACRED ECONOMICS