Pico Iyer and Elizabeth Gilbert – The Future of Hope 3
On Being with Krista Tippett
Hope Is Not the Conviction That Everything Will Turn Out Right, Because It Usually Doesn't
Hope is not the conviction that everything will turn out right, because it usually doesn't. It's just the notion that there is an order to things. We'll never know what it is and we'll never know why job keeps protesting his love and gets punished for it again and again. All this we can't understand or explain away. But hope is the sense that there's something else there, that im that has a plan or logic that we wouldn't be abletosense. And somehow even that can make us feel feel better. I also think what you are just saying is almost an explanation of what growing up is all about - seeing that my ideas of the world are always going to
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