What do you do in a hopeless situation? How can hope come to your aid once again? The way of peace has to answer these questions. Hope is emotionally necessary in a crisis. It is one of the chief ways our minds protect us. Yet hope has a hard time being felt when every disaster is instantly communicated around the world. And hope is rarely pure. It is always mixed in the tangled hierarchy with other emotions, including those opposed to hope, such as despair, fear, anger, and vengeance. . . .

We have lost touch with the reality of hope, which is a powerful force when it has a spiritual source but a deception when it doesn't.

Deepak Chopra, Peace Is the Way