Trust the Larger Hope

Simple, hard-earned lessons from a lifetime of brain surgery

ALLAN HAMILTON

Hope is an odd emotion. Almost no aspect of human activity, endeavor, or aspiration can exist for long without it. It possesses the strange alchemy of serving as the power that drives us toward the light as well as also being the light we seek. So it is both actor and agent. Even in our daily routines and schedules, hope fuels our ambitions in scores of minor episodes to take risks and prevail: I hope I can find a good parking spot; I hope I brought the file with me; I hope the pace lets up a little. We hope so much we hardly notice. But it is in the darkest, desperate moments that hope demonstrates its critical, stubborn luminescence. Viktor Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning about his…

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Spirituality & Health (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2024

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