How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2

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🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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How Hope Can Heal and Free Us - Part 2 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explore the importance of hope on the spiritual path, its shadow side, and how we can nourish hope through these three elements in a way that serves inner freedom and the healing of our world.

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." ~ Rumi

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.5	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:24.2	The last session or class, the focus was on the role of hope on the spiritual path.
0:33.0	And I was contrasting spiritual hope to Egoa Co, a kind of more narrow grasping kind of hope.
0:41.5	And the mark of Egoa Co is that we're wanting certain outcomes to come to pass in the future.
0:49.9	So I hope I'll get a raise or win the Olympic gold or whatever it is.
0:54.5	So there's a kind of narrowed hope.
0:56.5	And along with the grasping, there's a kind of a fear that it won't work out.
1:02.7	And there's a real narrowed attention.
1:04.7	It's like we miss the universe around us because we've got this idea.
1:08.7	We want just something in particular.
1:12.5	A favorite example has always been this story of an older woman who's kind of sitting on a band.
1:19.7	She's a park bench in Miami and very disheveled man and tattered clothing comes and sits down next to her.
1:26.9	And so she asks, how are you?
1:29.1	And he said, well, actually I'm just out of prison, 25 years.
1:35.1	And she says, oh, what were you in for?
1:37.1	He said, murdering my wife.
1:39.5	And she said, oh, so you're single.
1:48.5	So what happens is that we don't, we have an agenda because we're hoping for a certain thing and we're just not available to how life really is.
2:00.1	The hoping for a certain thing to happen a certain way actually makes it so we're not receptive and available and attuned to the whole mystery that's unfolding around us.
2:12.1	And this happens even in spiritual realms when we have an idea of we're meditating.
2:17.7	And we have an idea of how we want our practice to be.
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