Ronda McPyro on Facebook asked, “Why is hope dangerous?” This was my response.
Hope doesn’t seem dangerous to me. If anything, hope leaves the back door open for eventual new, hoped-for experiences.
From ‘Home with God’ by Neale Donald Walsch:
Hope is the doorway to belief, belief is the doorway to knowing, knowing is the doorway to creation and creation is the doorway to experience.Experience is the doorway to expression, expression is the doorway to becoming, becoming is the activity of all Life and the only function of God.
What you hope, you will eventually believe, what you believe, you will eventually know, what you know, you will eventually create, what you create, you will eventually experience what you experience you will eventually express, what you express, you will eventually become,
This is the formula for all of life.
It is as simple as that.
If there’s any drawback to having hope, I think it’s that it can be a constant tax on one’s energy/mental resources. But it may be worth it because hopelessness is a dark, depressive place and can become a downward spiral.
I guess a possible danger of hope is that it could act as a substitute for actually acting to change things. For example, we all hope against hope that we reverse climate change in time, but what are we doing to effect it? Maybe we’re blinded by hope and not driven enough by practicality?
(I showed this post to my friend, and she said, “Have to combine Hope with action.” I guess hope isn’t a danger as long as you do it right.)
