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Grounded hope channels the pivotal insight of Vaclav Havel: “Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”5 Grounded hope offers us no guarantee that we’ll ever walk on out of the darkness,
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
It was striking that the people with the most at stake were often the most hopeful. And that those who were active were often hopeful, though it may be the other way around: some of those who are hopeful are active. Yet the range of the hopeful extends beyond that, and you can find hope in surprising corners.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Uncertainty isn't something to just endure, but actively brings forth creativity and deeper connection. In work, in life. You make a few turns, not knowing which way is right or wrong, but each time you get slightly more precise. Precision compounds. You give yourself the benefit of the doubt. You commit to occupy difficult emotions. You release... See more
uncertainty is an evocative state
Hope, writes the moral philosopher Kieran Setiya,18 “keeps the flicker of potential agency alive.”
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine. The evidence is all around us of tremendous suffering and tremendous destruction. The hope I’m interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act.