The world needs hope; every person, everywhere, needs hope. HOPE gives us life. HOPE connects us. HOPE fuels us. HOPE moves us. HOPE keeps us. HOPE grounds us. HOPE protects us. HOPE anchors us.
…hope gives us the impetus to seek the betterment of our lives and others
Our Path of Hope is about many things. It is about challenging the norm. It is about volunteerism and service. It is about serving our communities, our world, and caring for our planet, our home. It is about finding out more about ourselves than we ever imagined possible. It is about having a dream. It is about a mission and our vocation in life. It is about believing in our journey and stories. It is all about hope.
The Path of Hope by Cicakkia
Hope is Light and the Poets’ Words Turn that Light into a Hopeful Life which Engages the World of Imagination and Healing
From darkness to light, from pain to healing: The transformative power of hope
Many philosophers of love, the sages of wisdom and light have reminded us of one thing, and that is the Power of HOPE, without which there will be no tomorrow and no meaningful and rewarding life.
These days, hope very much resonates with me. It has a more profound meaning and relevance. I am hoping for many positive outcomes in my own struggles and daily challenges. Above all, I am hoping for better things for my wife trying so hard to cope with the debilitating consequences of her stroke in August 2023.
I am hoping that, once again, she will be able to do things we used to take for granted. Hope nourishes my soul, warms up my heart, raises my spirit and encourages me to be resilient and indeed, believing that, life is great, every breath we take is priceless and precious.
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As far back as the 6th century BC, the Greek poet Theognis of Megara said: “Hope is the one good god remaining.” The poet Theo Dorgan reminds us that hope is a profound act of imagination, the most important and the most neglected of the civic virtues. In the face of the present societal and global crises we can lie down in despair, or we can choose hope — which means placing all our faith in each other and in the boundless capacity of the imagination to reinvent circumstance, to establish new truths.
All said and done we must remain hopeful: Spring will come, and flowers will bloom!
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Yearning in Hope
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‘It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old,
for hope must not depend on feeling good
and there’s the dream of loneliness at absolute midnight.
You also have withdrawn belief in the present reality
of the future, which surely will surprise us,
and hope is harder when it cannot come by prediction
anymore than by wishing. But stop dithering.
The young ask the old to hope. What will you tell them?
Tell them at least what you say to yourself.
Because we have not made our lives to fit
our places, the forests are ruined, the fields, eroded,
the streams polluted, the mountains overturned. Hope
then to belong to your place by your own knowledge
of what it is that no other place is, and by
your caring for it, as you care for no other place, this
knowledge cannot be taken from you by power or by wealth.
It will stop your ears to the powerful when they ask
for your faith, and to the wealthy when they ask for your land
and your work. Be still and listen to the voices that belong
to the stream banks and the trees and the open fields.
Find your hope, then, on the ground under your feet.
Your hope of Heaven, let it rest on the ground underfoot.
The world is no better than its places. Its places at last
are no better than their people while their people
continue in them. When the people make
dark the light within them, the world darkens.’
Listen to Wendell Berry reading his poem on hope HERE
Our Path of Hope is about many things. It is about challenging the norm. It is about volunteerism and service. It is about serving our communities, our world, and caring for our planet, our home. It is about finding out more about ourselves than we ever imagined possible. It is about having a dream. It is about a mission and our vocation in life. It is about believing in our journey and stories. It is all about hope.
Journey to Healing: Let Me Know What is Essential
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The Joy and the Healing Power of Light
Tree of Light by Kole Trent- Trent Art Gallery