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Hope is our air; our enemy is despair:

Ernest L. Woodward
"So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race "

May you forever live,
O my heart's hope!
              ***
Life and hope are inseparable.
Life is the body, and hope is the intuitive divinity in us, the divinity that wants to transcend the reality which we presently are.
Hope is man’s seeking, hope is man’s inner urge, hope is man’s upward flight into the Beyond. 


Ordinary earthly hope is nothing but building castles in the air.
We do nothing for God, nothing to improve ourselves,
we just hope that one day we shall become great, famous, powerful.


But the spiritual hope that we can cherish comes from our inner conviction of truth,
the truth that abides within us and in which we live.
This hope is surcharged with aspiration, whether we are consciously aware of it or not.
This hope is the harbinger of reality.

                                                                                                    Sri Chinmoy

THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

     The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost.

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