Hoping

hectic active and rewarding day
thoughts turn to far away places
knowing they are gathering for good



Below is passages from Paul Loeb's Soul of a Citizen that I enjoyed:

"You have to draw a distinction between hope and optimism, " writes Cornel West. "Vaclav Havel put it well when he said 'optimism' is the belief that things are going to turn out as would like, as opposed to 'hope,' which is when you are thoroughly convinced something is moral and right and therefore you fight regardless of the consequences."

"Hope, in this, view rarely springs from certainty. Instead, it begins and ends in the in what stirs in our hearts, where we place our trust, how we conduct our lives. As writer Norman Cousins explained: "The case for hope has never rested on provable facts or rational assessment. Hope by its very nature is independent of the apparatus of logic. What gives hope its power is not the accumulation of demonstrable facts, but the release of human energies generated by longing for something better."

May they be wise