Active Hope

Trying out a different way of thinking about our situation is a powerful way of strengthening our resilience and creativity.

They faced the uncertainty by bringing to it their intention.

each intention represents a preference for the kind of world we want.

Times of crisis have a similar effect: they wake us up and engage our full attention.

Not knowing brings your attention fully into the present.

Neither complacent optimism nor resigned pessimism has power to motivate us; they don’t generate a hunger for learning or provoke our best response.

Life, in its richness and mystery, never offers guarantees of success. We don’t let that stop us. Indeed, our awareness that the outcome is uncertain is what prompts us to prepare; it calls us to attention.

When we know the future isn’t yet decided, there is room for us to play a role in influencing what happens.

what is the point of making an effort to improve things if we believe catastrophe is inevitable?

Transmitted by global media, this story of modern living is catching on around the world and arousing an increasing appetite for consumption. Before 1970 just four items were regarded as essential purchases in China — a bicycle, a sewing machine, a wristwatch, and a radio.