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Reply #9: NO? hope? none whatsoever? Doesn't that depend upon hope for what?
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patrice
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Thu May-12-11 01:06 AM
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9. NO? hope? none whatsoever? Doesn't that depend upon hope for what? |
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If what you want doesn't happen, it is still possible to want/value what DOES happen.
I try to be kind of Buddhist about this question. I'm also interested in its ancestor, Hinduism.
Joseph Campbell said something once about when one realizes that one is really inevitably and unavoidably in free-fall, it's time to learn to love falling.
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