Status Updates From Hope in the Dark: The Untol...

"Thus it is that the world often seems divided between false hope and gratuitous despair. Despair demands less of us, it's more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity—seeing the troubles in this world—and imagination, seeing what might lie beyond these situations that are perhaps not inevitable and immutable."

This feels so relevant on a macro as well as a micro level.: "Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is the room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes--you alone or you in concert with a few dozens or several million others."