Re: Without Hope

I cannot imagine my life without hope.  It is as necessary as the air I breathe.
and yet…. I had the same thoughts, Burt.  And how do you create a vision of what you want to achieve if you are practising non-attachment.
This is what I finally decided.

Life is a dichotomy.  It just is.  And it is possible to hold non-attachments and still reach for something.  It is possible to live fully in the moment and also hold hope for the future.  I think it is what makes our decisions more mature and more fully loving.

Really good parents do this.  It isn't possible with a toddler to live outside the moment and attend to the child.  And yet…. hope lives in the vision for their future.  That hope creates direction.  The present lives fully the life.  I think it is possible to hold both.