“Hope’s home is at the inner most point in us and in all things.
It is a quality of aliveness.
It does not come at the end as the feeling that results from a happy outcome, rather it lies at the beginning, as a pulse of truth that sends us forth.
When our inner most being is attuned to this pulse it will send us forth in hope regardless of the physical circumstances of our lives.
Hope fills us with the strength to stay present, to abide in the flow of mercy, no matter what outer storms assail us.
It is entered always and only through surrender, that is, through the willingness to let go of everything we are presently clinging to, and yet when we enter it, it enters us us and fills us with its own life, a quiet strength beyond anything we have ever known.”
– Cynthia Bourgeault