Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope - Wise or spiritual hope includes the aspiration to manifest our full potential, individually and collectively, and the trust that this is possible. This talk explores how, especially in stressful times, this hope gets clouded over by fear; and how when it is alive, wise hope energizes and guides all spiritual transformation. We look at three practices - 3 A’s - that help us nurture hope: Aspiration for what we love, Attending to what we love, and Actively serving what we love. This talk includes several poems by poet Danna Faulds.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.9	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
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0:31.0	Namaste.
0:32.0	Welcome friends.
0:34.3	You might be familiar with those cartoons where they have the one or two people that are
0:39.5	stranded on a desert island and it's like about a 10 foot diameter and there's one little
0:47.1	palm tree in the middle.
0:48.9	So okay, Kristi, my assistant sent me one of these and the husband and wife are sitting
0:55.4	there and rains pouring down and he's saying to her, I do hope it clears up for the weekend.
1:04.2	And I thought of T.S. Eliot who wrote, you know, I told my heart to be still and wait
1:12.5	without hope for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
1:19.4	And this week I'd like to reflect on hope and you know, it feels very relevant to these
1:27.8	times in our personal lives and our world and more than usual what's compelling me is
1:36.7	very much to do with my life right in these times.
1:41.5	And I know the power of wise hope.
1:47.2	I know how it's a source of energy.
1:50.4	I know how it inspires me to engage and to serve and to keep waking up and given the
2:00.5	trajectory of much in our world right now.
2:04.3	You know, the global crises, how much seems at stake, the U.S. midterms around the corner.
2:12.3	I can watch how that wise hope gets clouded over by a kind of grimness and anxiety and
2:20.5	I've heard from many others, I know I'm not alone.
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