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Yes, We Can Have Hope

By Joan Halifax — 2020

Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on the idea of “wise hope” and why we should open ourselves to it.

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Words that Change Lives: David Wolpe at TEDxEmory

Words that Change Lives: David Wolpe at TEDxEmory

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David J. Wolpe
2013
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A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

What is it about humans that causes us to defy genetic programming and so often live in hope, despite all that’s terrible about existence? Diane Ackerman shares what she has learned about human survival from working at a crisis hotline.

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Diane Ackerman
1998
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The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter’s Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete

On the morning of December 22, 2005, Matt Long was cycling to work in the early morning when he was struck by and sucked under a 20-ton bus making an illegal turn. The injuries he sustained pushed him within inches of his life.

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Matt Long, Charles Butler
2011
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story―up to a certain point. “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,” he said, “and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.

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Jonathan Lear
2008
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The Anthropocene Reviewed (Signed Edition)

The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity.

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John Green
2021
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come.

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Rebecca Solnit
2016
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Why Are You Afraid? Have You No Faith?

The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on our lives, and the same is true for the Church. Masses were suspended for months, people could not receive the sacraments, and during that time Pope Francis celebrated Mass alone every day.

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Pope Francis
2021
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How Do You Stay Hopeful? Mitch Albom Says It’s All About Perspective

Mitch Albom, the author of the best-selling ‘Tuesdays with Morrie,’ talks about what he’s learnt about being hopeful from people he’s met who faced great adversity: his former professor Morrie Schwartz, ALS patients, and families in Haiti devastated by the earthquake in 2010.

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Mitch Albom
2012
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The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

Why do some people find and sustain hope during difficult circumstances, while others do not? What can we learn from those who do, and how is their example applicable to our own lives? The Anatomy of Hope is a journey of inspiring discovery, spanning some thirty years of Dr.

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Jerome Groopman
2005
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