"Muscular Hope" Your Invitation To Take An Imaginative Leap

Viral Mindfulness the Podcast

I'm simmering this summer with two words: MUSCULAR HOPE. Krista Tippet has inspired this adventure in idea.⁣ ⁣ "I talk about hope being a muscle.It’s not wishful thinking, and it’s not idealism. It’s not even a belief that everything will turn out OK. It’s an imaginative leap, which is what I’ve seen in people like John Lewis and Jane Goodall. ⁣ ⁣ These are people who said: 'I refuse to accept that the world has to be this way. I am going to throw my life and my pragmatism and my intelligence at this insistence that it could be different and put that into practice.'⁣ ⁣ That’s a muscular hope. ⁣ ⁣ So, to your question, I don’t always feel robustly hopeful. Depression is something I’ve struggled with. I’ve found the world an unbearable place for months at a time in the last two years. But at the same time I don’t feel like there’s a place in my work for my despair."⁣ ⁣ Read the full interview here:⁣ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/05/magazine/krista-tippett-interview.html⁣ ⁣ Learn more about Summer, Fall and Winter Wise Circles → viralmindfulness.com/wise-circle