"Despair touches me every day. I am no less affected by the wound of Separation than the next guy. Recently I have begun to see that the despair is sometimes an escape from what really wants to be felt, which is grief. Despair is paralyzing, while grief gives birth to courage, truth, and purpose. One reason our society is able to persist in its delusion that the suffering it creates is acceptable is that we don't allow the experience of grief, especially in the public realm. Grief needs to be held in community. Herein lies one of the areas of convergence between the political and the spiritual (if you want to call it that). The environmental movement will never succeed through rational arguments and invocations of doom." — Charles Eisenstein