How will we manifest this disposition of hope to the world? As a result of it is hope we’re speaking about. It isn’t a hopeless one who decides to rise up within the morning and maintain going, maintain working, maintain striving for even tiny, seemingly insignificant enhancements to life and the widespread good. Hope sustains us, pushes us ahead, conjures up us to maintain placing one foot in entrance of the opposite, even once we suppose it’s all however deserted us, all however run out.
Hope is what we deliver with us once we return to a well-worn story: the hope to find one thing new, to search out solace in one thing previous. Hope is what a gaggle of preteen boys dropped at a sleepover-bound-movie about Ewoks: What’s this new chapter in an previous story should say? And it’s what a little bit woman and her father deliver to a pile of plastic bricks: What expertise would possibly we create and picture collectively?
Hope calls for motion. Hope is constructed upon follow, and it breeds a disposition. Hope in a future that has but to be imagined, that’s value working for, that’s value upsetting the established order over, is what separates rebels from stormtroopers.
Hope is what we deliver to the questions of biggest significance. What would possibly we discover right here, now, on this place, that we would make use of tomorrow?
—Excerpted from My Life with the Jedi: The Spirituality of Star Wars by Eric A. Clayton
