Episode 16: About hope

Where you look for hope, and what you think it is, will affect the hope you feel. Join us as we explore what hope is to us, where we find it, and what we think it is.

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Episode Notes:

  • We can’t fake hope

  • What if hope has nothing to do with the future?

  • Hope says this moment isn’t everything

  • What if hope is just the space of knowing that there’s more?

  • Hope is the breathing room around our experience

  • What if hope (and everything else we’re looking for) is always in the background?

  • The cosmic joke

  • Real hope vs a positive mental attitude 

  • The hopefulness of understanding we’re never stuck with the experience we’re having

  • Looking at what actually fuels our experience rather than trying to change it

  • What if hope is just a natural side effect of glimpsing truth?

  • Do the past and the future really exist?

  • Hope is in the now

  • “The divine passes from the formless to form, and as human beings we are both spectators and participants in this spiritual theater called life.” - Sydney Banks