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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448866" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What is Hope?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never was a larger word<br>than Hope; <br>all dreams reside there; <br> <br>In the Future, <br>resides our desires laid bare; <br>our Now wants to go there<br>our Past wants to be washed away<br>or celebrate there-<br>inside Hope's Cathedral.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope is the Promised Land.<br>both Means<br>and Destination.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, what good does Hope do<br>if it goes away<br>after<br>what we hope for comes true? <br> <br>Is there not another dream then<br>that Hope must then fulfill? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, here we ask<br>what then is Hope itself? <br> <br>Is it my Expectation Confident<br>that what I want <br>will come true? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it merely that Leap of Faith<br>that all that currently ails<br>will dissipate<br>in my hoped-for future state? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If all is risked on this single word<br>then we must know exactly<br>what it is; <br>for me<br>what is Hope's meaning for me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well the Expectation idea <br>that Hope is the confidence that<br>want I want will come true<br>is too much for me.<br>I don't have that kind of confidence<br>do you? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing for me is ever for sure<br>not even Hope <br>itself<br>because, as we all know, Hope can<br>give way to Black Despair where<br>by definition Hope has gone<br>and fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since no one can read our future states<br>we bob and weave between<br>hoping for hope<br>but fearing despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rather like the Leap of Faith Idea<br>where we all make<br>the assumption that actions now, <br>will in future state, <br>pay off<br>and Hope will fulfill the expectations<br>we have placed there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But note, <br>it is all too true that Hope<br>then is fully based<br>on Leaps of Faith<br>and then we ask<br>faith in what? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If all of Human-Kinds Hopes<br>distill from Human-Kinds Dreams<br>then upon what faith did cavemen<br>dream of a better world? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon a pagan God, <br>restless shadows on the cave wall, <br>incantations said and made? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the pointed point here is <br>that our ancestors did have<br>blind faith in something which<br>caused them to feel that dreams<br>they dreamed<br>had some Hope of becoming Real<br>and that Hope<br>had to involve for them an enormous leap<br>beyond what they could see<br>in their lives then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Leaping then is what we do<br>even where there is no evidence<br>in reality that our dreams<br>however fervently held<br>will ever actually come true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Hope we see <br>is bound up with<br>Mystery<br>and Leapings<br>into Voids<br>with nothing more<br>than the belief<br>that in dreaming<br>it <br>we can make it come true-<br>be brought into reality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rather like writing a poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Humm, the moral here: <br>Nothing can be done<br>unless one<br>has the dream<br>and Hope<br>to make it so<br>and by hoping bring it <br>into reality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This seems to be<br>the true History <br>of Human-Kind<br>at its best<br>and <br>at its<br>worse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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than Hope; 
all dreams reside there; 
 
In the Future, 
resides our desires laid bare; 
our Now wants to go there
our Past wants to be washed away
or celebrate there-
inside Hope's Cathedral.

Hope is the Promised Land.
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