Published by Bob on 11 Jul 2008 at 06:11 pm
The Most Powerful Emotion
If someone asked you, “What is the most powerful emotion?”… what would you say?
Would you say anger? Love? What about grief? What is the most powerful emotion?
I say it is hope… Yes, Hope!
I believe that the reason we humans still exist is hope. Without hope we would have given up back in the caveman days. Hope drives our desires, our dreams. It allows us to go on when there seems to be no chance of winning or even survival. It allows us to believe in happy endings.
Hope is the glimmer of possibility. It is the belief in the possible. It is your belief in the achievable. It is the beacon through all the noise, confusion, anger and frustration in the world. If your dream, your desire, wasn’t attainable, wasn’t doable, then you wouldn’t see the glimmer. Follow that glimmer. Take action until it gets brighter and brighter. Hope is your guiding star.
If you’ve found yourself without hope, you have chosen to believe that “what is” is all “there is.” You’ve reached a dead end. A black hole sucking up life. There are no more possibilities.
In an earlier post, I stated “there is always hope”. Believe it! You can choose to hope. There are always possibilities.
Look around you. Change your perception. See the doorway in the dead end. See the black hole as the transportation to a new, better, brighter reality. Allow yourself to see the potential and the conceivable in any situation that you had blinded yourself to.
Experience the most powerful emotion. Hope.
Gwen Baran
P.S. If you feel hopeless and that something is missing, you may find this article helpful:
http://www.intentionalprosperity.com/somethingismissing.html
Take care,
Gwen
ashraf sheik on 16 Apr 2009 at 11:14 pm #
I agree that Hope is an extremely powerful emotion, but I prefer to believe that love is the most powerful emotion. Facing a personal crisis, the loss of a dearly loved soul mate, my struggle to deal with the loneliness has led me to look deep into myself and gradually realize that only love can combat the loneliness that threatens to utterly and completely destroy the very spirit of my being.
Not necessarily love for another human being, although that would heal, if the relationship were not based on memories and despair, but love by itself, love for the birds that I feed every morning, love for the plants that I water every day, love that self-affirms life and is independent of a need-driven dependency.
Hope illuminates the journey, but it is Love that revives and sustains.
Anything further on this would be hugely appreciated.
Ashraf
Bob on 25 Apr 2009 at 7:47 pm #
Thank you for your comment. I am sorry for your loss. It appears that you have spent much time in introspection. I wish for you the healing you desire.
It sounds like you have been experiencing Divine Love. In that form, I would agree with you. When it comes to human love, I still believe hope is more powerful.
So in response, all I can say is that, as unfortunate as it is and you have experienced, people live without love everyday. Hope is a basic need that as human beings, I don’t believe we can live without. To my knowledge, there has never been a suicide that had hope and many leave behind those who love them. It is the loss of all hope that allows people to lose love and life.
Obviously, I would wish for everyone a life full of love and hope.
Gwen