There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
