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Symbolically speaking, this is when we lose track of our own story, when the divine thing we glimpsed grows faint and feels inconsequential, so we lose hope that life will ever be different.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
Hope is a flower of a different order, one that blooms in a striving acknowledgment, even celebration, of finitude and whatever we can bear through its innumerable relations.
John Lysaker • Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas
Thus it is that the world often seems divided between false hope and gratuitous despair. Despair demands less of us, it’s more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity—seeing the troubles in this world—and imagination, seeing what might lie beyond these situations that are perhaps not inevitable and immutable.