I used to say "Hope is crap"! Not too Peaceful.
What's really true is that hope alone is not a reliable route to Peace. Here's why. Hope can be an excuse for people to rationalize inaction. And Peace needs all the action we can muster.
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darvish says "We suffer from an incurable malady: hope". Hope implies that it alone is necessary and sufficient to produce a result. It locates responsibility for what is possible outside ourselves, allowing us to escape responsibility for choosing ways to create what we "hope" for. The Buddhists say that hope is the source of suffering because folks hope for what is not, as a way to resist or avoid responsibility for what is.
Peace requires commitment, intention, action, meditation, prayer, miracles and lots of other things. You can hope for Peace. Please also be willing to be responsible and choose to do something to create it!
Love,
Darlene
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