'Hope' Articles
Hope in this day and age seems a much maligned feeling. Yet we deal with levels of mental illness that have never been known before. Stress related illnesses are our biggest killers, and yet we are admonished to be realistic, be rational. There is a truth in life. When you face the truth that is inside you and live that truth, you are who you are by nature. Hope is instinct. It is a guide and it manifests. Thinking comes after hope.
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)
“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.” French Proverb
What Do You Hope?
Hope is the idea that you can go forward. It’s actually an instinct. They say animals don’t deal with things like hope, but observations show otherwise. Their motivations are in a sense more simple than our own, but that doesn’t necessarily mean much. Hope is an instinct. If we lived solely by our rational minds, then by all rational argument it wouldn’t be possible to deal with being alive. If everything were a cost benefit analysis then the benefit doesn’t justify the cost. Hence the despair when hope is lost. When one is forced to stop and confront that a hoped for things… Seek More
Hope Guides
Find what you want. Then acting on that what would you do? Then do that. Do you wonder what else you should do? Wondering like that is doubt. Doubt is the opposite of hope. Hope guides, doubt bars the way. Look at it from a ‘what can I do right now’ point of view, even if it’s only one thing. This is necessary. People feel like they should abandon hope, but hope is the spirit itself. It is like saying you should slash your wrists. This dynamic, it is subtle and not subtle, a fine balance but obvious but not.… Seek More
Hope Manifests
Hope manifests. In my actions if in no other way, and my actions have a meaning for any who would witness. It may not be the meaning I want, but they generate an impact. The spirit of the action gets through even if they aren’t conscious of it. I have gone through my life like this. People speak of life changing events, of a life of misery turning around, of a failure becoming a success. I don’t see that happening for anything I do, but I will still do it. I never did stop. My nickname with my brother is… Seek More
Personal Responsibility
Hope in this day and age seems a much maligned feeling. Yet we deal with levels of mental illness that have never been known before. Stress related illnesses are our biggest killers, and yet we are admonished to be realistic, be rational. How realistic is it to say that we should be rational first and foremost? It seems a socially perpetuated falsehood at best. We are feeling people. We even engage in intoxicants and get on prescription meds because we are told to be realistic, to control our feelings, to accept life as it is because it’s the only way… Seek More
What Matters?
Which matters more, money or the ones you love? Which matters more, stability or growth that keeps up with the communities needs? Money doesn’t do much on its own. It is largely a meaningless number in a bank if you have no hope. You could be incredibly rich and have that money count for nothing if you have no reason to use the money. Hope goes beyond things. Inside, do you find emptiness? Inside of you, you find what you believe is there. You were told that what you wanted was wrong, and that you didn’t matter. You believe them.… Seek More
