Transcending Hope and Despair

Please stop giving people hope.  Just trust that all is occuring as it should.  Spare me the hope that something is going to change Aug 4.  everthing has changed but others fail to see the change.  We are ascending and it does not matter if disclosure happen right this minute or tomorrow.  People be the one and only, spirit of one.  I am living in the now and disclosure happen to me in my meditation.  I saw an alien, when I say alien something that is not familiar to being of this earth.  Why do I need discloure.

Hope & dispair, perhaps known otherwise as the wheel of karma?

If so I exit here.

Hope is an illusion, however it is often a rather useful one. There has always been a lot of desperate people striving simply for survival in this world. Why not go and tell them stop having the desire for a better future and just dwell at the NOW moment instead... 

Very interesting thoughts on "hope". 

I just had a flash re "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" ... Dante's imagined inscription over the entrance to hell. We've always assumed, been taught, the statement was the equivalent of "no way out of this place of eternal suffering", and I assume it's what Dante was thinking (am no scholar on Dante). But maybe we need to look at the statement as a clue to remedy - as in "hope is not what you need to restore your prospects"! 

That was a 'flash thought', and not what I meant to post. I meant to thank you for a discussion on what we mean by 'hope' and how we frequently use hope to avoid more effective response to problematic situations that might be improved.  I do not argue that some situations cannot be remedied, at least not easily, and acceptance is part of any remedy.

I've noticed curiously recently that I don't like to use the word 'hope' even in causal conversation - don't like to hear myaelf saying "we can always hope" and am uncomfortable when I hear others say it. I think that intuitively I've come to an awarenss about 'hope' much in line with your thoughts.

I am acutely aware, at nearly every moment, what a mess humanity, all life, and the earth itself are in. Rational, logical, thinking strongly suggests to me that we're unlikely to change course in a timely manner. It often seems as if time is up. Nevertheless, there is "something" inside me that compels me to act "as if" I can make a difference in helping humanity find its way - to what I percieve as "humanity's yet undeveloped promise and potential". Similarly, the same internal "mysterious" motivation causes me to act "as if" radical earth-care practices of a single individual will contribute to restoring earth's natural functions that support abundance.

I don't consider myself "hopeful" at all. But I do seem to operate from some kind of optimism that may be more intuitive/instinctive than logical. (I'm retirement age - have 'been there, done that' with "hope" as remedy!)