Wise Hope

Roshi Joan Halifax says: Wise hope is not seeing things unrealistically but rather seeing things as they are, including the truth of suffering—both its existence and our capacity to transform it. It’s when we realize we don’t know what will happen that this kind of hope comes alive; in that spaciousness of uncertainty is the very space we need to act.

Wise hope is about facing our realities and recognizing that what we do matters.

Václav Havel said hope is not the same thing as optimism. Optimism is the conviction that things will turn out well. Hope is the certainty that something will make sense regardless of how things turn out. Whatever happens, there will be change.

Join me for a reflection and meditation on wise hope.

(Background music: Silencio, Image: Farris Mohamme)