Letting Go of Hope [1]

What is hope exactly? It's nothing more than an expectation for  the future. Has humanity not yet learned the limitations of this type of thinking? Hope is a distraction from the Now, usually a reaction to the suffering one is feeling. It's a temporary relief from that suffering, but hope does not and cannot resolve that suffering, it just puts your attention someplace else. Hope is like a medicine that relives the symptoms of a disease, but does nothing to cure the disease itself.

People who are addicted to hope will feel despair at the thought of giving up their hope. Such is the nature of the dualistic mind, it has a "positive" and a "negative", both of which invariably lead to the other. Despair is not a lack of hope, despair is the other side of hope, the two emotions are brothers. They work together to keep the being stuck in illusion.

Now, there's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a better future, but it's how you go about creating that future that really matters. Simply hoping for a better future isn't going to do anything, and it's foolish to just hope for a better future when there's nothing stopping you from creating that Now. In Reality, there is no better future, there's only a very big NOW and that is what you make of it.

 

Blessings,

Will & The Galactic Free Press

 

 

I, Will, the author of this piece, release it into Public Domain [2]. You are free to share it, and even modify it, without any conditions.