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Pico Iyer and Elizabeth Gilbert – The Future of Hope 3

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is There a Moment in Your Life When Hope Made Things Better?

i love that sense that hope gets in the way of the only treasure we really have, which is this moment right now. I don't know why i have such a negative view of hoping, buti i am. There's a difference between hoping and dreaming. And i think hoping is kind of a wilful infl inflicting. Am, ive never been im through as serious and grave and and suicidal, a depression i hope never to again. As you know, my mother passed away just a few hours before we were due to hold this conversation. She was so glad to be fully there, not thinking about all the many ways she might be rescued, or what would happen six months from

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