Pandora’s Box
Insights on hope, fear, evil and despair
Pandora’s Box
Insights on hope, fear, evil and despair

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.
This law explains why “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” and why “He calleth things that are not seen as though they were and things that were not seen become seen.”
"I don't know, Juan Preciado. After so many years of never lifting up my head, I forgot about the sky. And even if I had looked up, what good would it have done? The sky is so high and my eyes so clouded that I was happy just knowing where the ground was. Besides, I lost all interest after padre Renteria told me I would never know glory. Or even
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Susannah realized, with dawning bitterness, that she could now give the perfect definition of a ka-mai: one who has been given hope but no choices.