Wir wissen, dass die Bedrängnis Ausharren (Geduld) bewirkt, das Ausharren aber Bewährung, die Bewährung aber Hoffnung, Hoffnung aber lässt nicht zuschanden werden.
Paulus, Brief an die Römer 5, 4-5 (NT)

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2. Die Hoffnung und die Skepsis

Die Hoffnung und die Skepsis begegneten sich zufällig.

Ich habe gehofft, sagte die Hoffnung zur Skepsis, dass ich dich eines Tages treffen würde.

Ich habe es befürchtet, entgegnete die Skepsis und ergriff die Flucht.

Warum hast du Angst vor mir?,

rief die Hoffnung ihr enttäuscht hinterher, aber sie bekam keine Antwort.
Hans Kruppa

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3. Zitate zum Thema Hoffnung / Hope

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3.1 Zitate von D. Hawkins

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3.2 Zitate (engl.) von D. Hawkins

The state of feeling abandoned by God and being hopeless results in a global feeling of depression and may include an alteration of the experience of time comparable to the experiencial lower levels of Hell as described by Dante: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here!" This state may be a transitory phase as a consequence of intense spiritual work, especially in a devotee who throws all caution to the wind and explores the deepest levels of consciousness, at which depth the devotee intuitively senses that it is necessary to relinquish the ego and remove all doubt. Thus, this state may represent the need to reach inner validation of spiritual truth before total abandonment of the ego itself. Transcending Levels of Consciousness, S. 35

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3.3 Zitate von anderen Quellen

Ohne das Transzendente und Transpersonale werden wir krank, gewalttätig und nihilistisch oder verlieren die Hoffnung und werden apathisch. Wir brauchen etwas, das größer ist als wir selbst, das wir verehren und dem wir uns hingeben können. Abraham Maslow, Psychologe und Glücksforscher

Die Wurzel der Geschichte [...] ist der arbeitende, schaffende, die Gegebenheiten umbildende und ueberholende Mensch. Hat er sich erfasst und das Seine ohne Entaeusserung und Entfremdung in realer Demokratie begruendet, so entsteht in der Welt etwas, das allen in die Kindheit scheint und worin noch niemand war: Heimat. Ernst Bloch, Das Prinzip Hoffnung

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3.4 Zitate (engl.) von anderen Quellen

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce (1902-1987) US American diplomat, author

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. Anne Lamott (*1954) US American bestselling author, recovering conversed alcoholic

Having hope means that one will not give in to overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude or depression in the face of difficult challenges or setbacks. Hope is more than a sunny view that everything will turn out alright. It is believing you have the will and the way to accomplish your goals. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 1995

The Second Layer of Hope: It is the nature of hope to become lost; what begins with high hopes often ends in deep despair. Hope hid under the lid after Pandora's box opened, as if all the troubles of the world must be released before genuine hope can be found. Any hope for this hopeless world might have to be found inside the currents of despair that increasingly accompany the news reports of cultural unraveling and environmental disasters.
Initial hopes tend to be false hopes and high hopes that never reach the ground of reality. After naive hopes have been dashed against the hard edges of the world a second level of hope sometimes appears, a "hope against hope."
For, what can be found at the edge of hopelessness and in the depths of despair are the images hidden in the soul, the core imagination that waits to be found when all seems hopeless and the end is in sight. The second layer of hope includes a darker knowledge of the world and a sharper insight into one's own soul. Perhaps it would be better to name the hidden hope "imagination," for it is imagination that keeps the world a becoming thing.
The core and crucial power of humanity is not simple hope, rather it is the capacity for renewal that attends the inborn powers of imagination. Hope is reborn each time someone awakens to the genuine imagination of their own heart. Hope springs eternal as long as people can find a sense of mythic imagination that can create ways to hold the ends and beginnings together, even when things appear hopeless to most. Michael Meade, storyteller, author, mythologist, The World Behind the World. Living at the Ends of Time, pg. 63, Greenfire Press, 1st edition, 28. April 2008

Naive hope is general. The second layer of hope, deepened hope, is specific.
To really enter the world, you usually have to lose your hopes. Once a person loses hope, the actual word for that is despair. In other words, you want leaders who have lost their initial hopes, who have survived their own despair because then once you go through that kind of darkness you find that second level or layer of hope which is not naive and not overly hopeful, but is more of a wisened and smartened hope, and it's a deeper hope that is not deterred by simple defeat.
And my hope is that Obama's sense of hope is that second level of hope because given our difficulties, that's the kind of hope we're going to need. Audio interview with Michael Meade, storyteller, author, mythologist, Interviews / Conversations with Mosaic teachers, radio KUOW – NPR, On the inauguration of Barack Obama

Let it be told to the future world [...] that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive [...] that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) pre-revolutionary pamphlet The American Crisis
quoted by Barack Obama, 44th president of USA, inaugural, 20. January 2009

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3.5 The silver lining

Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
I did not err, there does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night.
John Milton, Paradise regained, Comus 234

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