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The Importance of Hope in Life
The Sermon on the Mount is to orient your attitude in the most profound way towards that which is the highest. And it looks like that idea was embedded in the Jesuit practice. People often find themselves mired into kind of unproductive hopelessness, partly because they don't direct what they're doing toward a higher purpose. If you understand that each step you take, no matter how small it is, is a step taken towards somewhere that you really want to go and should go, then that does infuse each step with meaning.