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Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Charles Eisenstein • 5 highlights
amazon.comThe Power of the Gift To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy—and it makes you accountable... You’re likely to take much better care of the gift hat than the commodity hat, because it is knit of relationships. This is the power of gift thinking.
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

This calls us to undertake a transformation from a worldview of domination and exploitation to a kin-centric worldview that acknowledges our utter dependence upon the life-giving gifts of other species, before whom we can only bow in gratitude. Gratitude awakens the impulse to return the gifts, to enter the covenant of reciprocity.