Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don’t know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you’ve built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place of gravity and stability, where our feet can still touch ground.
~ Deb Caletti
Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it. This is a daunting form of commitment: to a goodness in the world that transcends one’s current ability to grasp what it is.
~ Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope
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