1. It all boils down to hope.
2. Hope is the not unraveler.
3. You can forget where you put your keys, but you can’t misplace hope.
4. Hope turns what seems like a knot of steel, into a mere ball of string.
5. Hope is a master knot unraveler
6. There is reason to hope
7. There is reason to hope; you’re at the very gates of peace
8. You can rest in a different world; a world of hope
9. Hope sees goodness and overlooks everything else
10. Hope is an emotion of love you choose when you see your brother as yourself
11. Hope is the explosion of wishful thinking
12. Hope turns the finger nails that you’re hanging on by instead into the safety harness of peace of mind
13. Hope is best shared. You can share the thoughts of hope endlessly and never run out.
14. Investments in hope share all, leaving you with everything you truly want
15. Hope is born when mistakes happen.
16. Hope arrived when the mistake was made, and lovingly corrected it for you
17. You are the hope
18. Hope lovingly fixes all mistakes
19. We are all mistake makers and hope generators
20. Hope empowers
21. Hope recharges the tired batteries of the soul
22. When it’s cold outside, hope warms from within
23. HOPE POWER—it lights up the world producing giga-watts of peace
24. HOPE POWER AND LIGHT—-Generating giga-watts of peace
25. Plug into HOPE POWER AND LIGHT and get recharged with peace of mind
26. You can rest peacefully on the thoughts of hope
27. The mechanical engineering of Mind Propulsion
The mind is powered by one hope-generator, activating a superconducting circuit of confidence and trust, reinitiating a feedback loop of joy attracting all receivers on the circuit with a magnetic field consisting of love, which simultaneously expells all the fear-gasses as exhaust in every dimension to infinity, and propelling the mind to its correct destination of peace.
A flux is then created by the hope generator setting off a chain reaction in other field circuits resulting in a unified-resonance frequency that acts at the core of each love field, propagating a thought wave of positive energy of such great amplitude that it superimposes any loose or closed wave string of anti-matter hindrance of past or future grievances, which in turn activates countless other hope generators in the circuit, creating a supernova synergy of lights, which is transmitted to the time zone of "now" in all locations in all dimensions, whereby no ego gravitation is felt. The mind is transported in its perfect unity to any world it chooses to create.
The hope generator will operate in absolute stillness at 100% efficiency forever.
28. Your imagination is a trustworthy channel of hope
29. Hope says: Imagine, believe in yourself and others
30. Hope says: You and your brothers are trustworthy
31. Hope says: Value the immeasurable goodness of your heart
32. Hope is a belief that makes a big difference
33. Hope answers the call for love with love, and a grievance is nothing but a call for love
34. What is real is good
35. Real is good (meant to coincide with "It’s all good")
36. Hope is the thought that leads to thriving
37. Hope is thriving
38. Plagarisim from Maya Angelou (let’s get her permission to use) "Tos survive is important, but to thrive is elegant"
39. Hope sees the good. Your brother is good. I am your brother and you are mine.
40. We are all family, and we are a good family!
41. We are all mistake-makers, and all mistakes are fixable.
42. Mistakes are opportunities in disguise
43. Wisdom comes from mistake correction. Trial and error is simply the way we become wise.
44. There are no accidents, and all mistakes can be corrected (To be marketed to Allstate ASAP)
45. Sprinkle a dash of hope into the batter of the problem and you will bake up a wonderful solution
46. Dare to look at the goodness inside you
47. YOUR GENIOLOGY
Hope begot vision and
Vision begot truth and
Truth begot love and
Love begot peace and
Peace begot you and me
48. If you dare to look inside, you will find a new world of love
49. You are truly good
and that is my final answer!
50. News Flash: Peace broke out all over the Middle East. It all happened when one person accidentally had a thought of hope.
51. You are worth much more than little slips of paper and little round pieces of metal.
52. Your body seems to change, but your spirit is always good
53. WARNING!
You are now having a hopeful thought.
Unless you resisting with all your fear, it will lead to peace of mind. (Yes it may be negative, but it reaches negativity with reverse psychology)
54. END OF THE WORLD PREDICTION:
You are about to lose your attraction to guilt and fear.
Peace will come pouring out.
This will end the world as you now see it
replacing it with a world of love.
55. END OF THE WORLD PREDICTION:
You will have a hopeful thought.
That will set off a course of action.
That will lead to truth.
That will end the world as you now see it.
That will create a new and much better world of love.
56. I had a hopeful thought about a near-life experience.
57. If you knew you would live forever, what kind of world would you try to create? (Message of action)
58. THE STRANGEST THING HAPPENED:
I chose to think good things about my brother that I hated, and I got peace-of-mind.
59. Both you and your brother make peace-of-mind possible.
60. Let us all hope for the willingness to forgive. It is our decision.
61. Plagarism from PBS Buddist lady? "Neurosis is temporary but sanity is permanent"
62. Dare to give yourself completely to the wind. I will join you and we’ll form a hurricane of power and peace.
63. What I really want is peace-of-mind
64. NOTHING is waht i am afraid of; SOMETHING is what give me peace.
65. PEEK-A-BOO…..I see the good in you!
66. The good in you inspires me
67. GRAVITY: The strings of goodness in me attracted to the strings of goodness in you, and vice versa
68. Light is what connects me and you
69. To share is to enjoy
1. Hope comforts.
2. Hope is the mutual knowledge that we truly can make a difference together!
3. hope is the window that opens so your worrys can escape.
4. hope fills the cup lets drink it together! ( keith )
5. hope finds your way through the darkness.
6. H.O.P.E. (Healing, Optimistic, Positive, Energy)
7. Looking for the real pleasure? Find yours in helping others.
8. A little love in the heart is a great place to start!
9. If all of us put our minds and hearts into it, we can literally work anything out.
10. Some doses of compassion can start to heal the world.
11. Be conscious of your conscience.
12. Hope is where the heart is.
13. Hope is the guide through and out of the wilderness of despair.
14. Hope is the ship that sails you to the land of inner peace.
15. With hope, dreams are meant to come true.
16. Hope isn’t that far away, you can reach out and touch it.
17. Hope drives you just content!
18. Hope says " I/you can do it!"
19. Hope says where there is a will there is always a way!
20. See Also: Keith’s Messages
21. Find and value the immeasurable goodness in your heart.
22. In a world of chaos hope bring fresh, new insight.
23. Hope says to you, "you can make it happen!"
24. hope believes you can do it!
25. hope refeshes the mind. hope won’t cost you a dime.
26. Real hope is a diamond, treasure it! (And it’s free!)
27. There is strength in hope.
28. Hope says yes, "your dreams truly can come true!"
29. Hope opens the cage of despair, and sets you free!
Terry - or how about - Hope forces open the cage of despair, and sets you free! (Of course, I don’t like thinking about cages or despair all that much, but…)
30. Reign in the hope, let it reign in your heart, and let love and peace rain upon you (and make you feel refreshed)
31. Make it your choice to have hope and rejoice
32. Breath in hope, breath out love and peace
33. Hope attracts love and peace.
34. Enjoy yourself in peaceful thoughts!
35. Hope, love, and peace are a sweet blend to the senses.
36. Plant your dreams in the garden of hope and reap a harvest of joy
37. Hopicity runs the love machine to the land of peace.
38. Let the magic hands of hope touch your heart
39. Bless someone today with your smile
40. May your days be full of hope and nights full of good dreams and aspirations
41. May you leave a trail of hope as you wander the world
42. Hope is like a good meal, it fills you up and gives you strength
43. Hope is like a cup of hot chocolate, it warms you up from the inside.
44. Make a figure eight with giving and receiving, it makes a figure great
45. Make love to peace and concieve hope
46. Get into the good habit of hope
47. Continue to bless the people you meet with the goodness of your heart (Inspired by Terry Britton)
48. Hope is endless love made manifest.
49. You are now having ahopeful thought. Do not adjust yourself, hope is now taking control.
It will contol the love. It will control the peace. And take you to the outer limits. ( Burma Shave)
50. Hope makes the impossible, possible!
51. Rest your mind on a pillow of hope.
52. In need of hope? Just look inside!
53. Hope is the drummer, joy and peace are the dancers.
54. Bet on hope and you’ll win everytime.
55. Hope never goes out of style!
56. hope just feels good.
57. hope takes you foward!
58. Hope is people-friendly.
59. Find your solutions in hope.
60. Hope is the great satisfier and pacifier.
61. Ask hope to pay a visit to your heart.( Its a very good guest)
62. lift your spirits will the pulley of hope.
63. Get a hope-high.
64. Show me a person that is rich in hope, and I’ll show you a person that is rich in peace. (Burma Shave)
64. Give someone a positive experiece.
65. Hope is magnetic, it brings people together
Rasta hope Messages:
66. We all Idrin!
67. You my Idrin all d time
68. When life is fiery
just be Irie
69. A day with hope IS a day with sunshine
70. Appreciate the similarities and celebrate the differences
71. Hope is so delicious! It full-fills you
The function of Messages of Hope is to inspire, to comfort, to encourage and empower, and to give strength where strength is waning. We will accomplish our goals by designing the messages themselves. We will to sell our ideas to both existing and potential clients. Every aspect of the company, every activity, every approach, every methodology, everything about it is open to continual redesign.
We must become accomplished designers. Although individuals may be capable of coming up with incredible ideas and approaches themselves, we are going to emphasize instead the methodology of working in team situations, where everybody had an equal standing and an equal right to question or add to another’s ideas. We are going to follow this dictum:
We will begin each effort by focusing upon the need at hand and the concerns that make themselves evident right from the start. Perhaps we’ll hear from some individual staff members who have been privy to some research they’ve come across will share their knowledge with the group. The key reason for this effort is to focus the entire group upon a single goal that is well defined, with some of the plusses and minuses, opportunities and pitfalls spoken out so everyone is grounded in a framework of what we’ll call “beginning reality.” Above all else, we must be aware that however much we think we know about the subject, at some point, very important items previously unconsidered by us will turn all of our well-informed but preconceived notions into obvious Alice in Wonderland fantasies. Reality is a relative thing, as far as the human conception of it is concerned.
During our discussion, some ideas will immediately be recognized as viable and will be written on notepaper and posted on the walls for future perusal. (See the Rules below).
After our brainstorming session, we will break into groups and discuss how to find real experts so we can learn more from them than we can discover on our own. We will be somewhat like anthropologists, studying a primitive tribe. The most valuable members of our group will be those who are out there in the world, talking with the experts, getting opinions from diverse groups of people, and being a “moving body.”
Share the project’s goals with everybody you meet and you will find that the six degrees of separation between you and the person who has the golden key to the best approach to your goal will be traversed in short time.
When everybody returns from their explorations, we will encourage chaos – wild ideas which might serve as jumping-off points leading eventually towards the best solutions. An average ‘chaos’ session could last three hours or more. This focused chaos will follow certain rules:
The person who leads meetings will be selected on the basis of their leadership skills.
The Company is eclectic – even people in the company having seemingly no experience in the area we are exploring will be welcomed into the group.
After three hours or so, there may be hundreds of ideas posted on the walls surrounding the group meeting area. The ideas will be subjected to a vote by the group, with the ideas getting the largest number of votes being implemented right away (perhaps due to low costs or easy connections already established). Another criteria for selection may be based upon which ideas hold the highest promise, even though some extra leg work may be necessary. The ideas to be considered for implementation will be chosen by the entire team before voting begins, and there may be multiple voting sessions based upon differing criteria. This kind of decision-making is best when agreed upon by the whole team.
A self-appointed council of "Adults" will then work to redirect the focus of the group. They may determine that more research needs to be done, or that it is necessary to produce working prototypes to evaluate further, etc., and they will assign other members - like it or not - to take part as members of a team focusing upon a particular area of need. Team members are selected who will go on to produce their own prototypes to express the ideas of their group.
This group of self appointed “Adults” is necessary at this point, because there has to be a “command decision” made eventually. There is no choice but to stop the cycle of chaos and get the group back to becoming focused upon a definite direction, or the chaos process will continue with no end and the group will go nowhere.
At this point everybody will reconvene and the results of their respective efforts will be put on display for the rest of the team to scrutinize . The committee of self appointed “Adults” may decide at this point is more work that must be done. For instance, perhaps suggesting that the teams take each of their ideas and “pull them back” a little considering how they might make a combination of ideas work. The best elements will be singled out by the teams and be combined together.
The motto of the team effort will be, “Fail often in order to succeed sooner!”
A playful and creative atmosphere will be encouraged everywhere, and all workers are encouraged to design their own workspace – with materials that will be paid for by the company. The more involved everybody is in the creation of their own work area, the better the results will be for all our endeavors. Our purpose is serious, but this does not mean that our workspace and attitudes needn’t be playful and fun. We will accomplish more and help many more people by staying “light on our feet.” Lighthearted silliness is perfectly acceptable behavior at all times, as long as it keeps the flow of energy moving towards increased creativity levels.
Everybody is encouraged to simply try stuff out “on his/her own.” Take the approach of asking for forgiveness rather than asking for permission.
A company needs a “boss” who insists that other people’s ideas be considered before or rather than his/her own, and who encourages an atmosphere where “chaos” is encouraged.
Criteria:
Messages of Hope are more than simply "Feel Good" or "Warm and Fuzzy" things, and are carefully thought out so as to avoid pitting "do’s and don’ts" against each other, or inviting "which hunts" (sic). Also, no platitudes, please!
Rather, they are statements that bring out the truth of our inner humanity and celebrate it in all of its light. Even a simple thought such as "We can make it if we try," or "Here comes the Sun," or "It’s going to be alright" engender and inspire hope. They are messages which aid people in “remembering one’s self.” Remembering one’s strengths, their inner place where people get their sense of strength in order to have hope, so they may dare to dream, have aspirations grow within them from those dreams, and actually take actions that are fulfilling to their sense of purpose. “People need to remember who they are. They are someone with the capacity for love.”
These simple statements are much more powerful than they seem they could be because of the amazing human ability to visualize positive outcomes , even in the midst of terrible events and fearful realities. Our messages of hope will allow people to tap into that powerful ability to visualize positive outcomes.
So the first criteria would be that we are careful of what we would have people visualize! Such as, “Through our compassion for others, the world will be made a more beautiful place!”
The second criteria would be to be careful of how you make a person feel about themselves personally and in relationship with others around them. We must be careful to analyze our messages that they do not contain hidden guilt-inducing aspects in the event a person does not do as the message might suggest. Guilt and a feeling of shamefulness help no one. We also wish to bind people together, being careful that our messages do not imply that a person would be ostracized from their local society if they did not act like a message may suggest they act in order to properly conform with some societal or cultural "rules." We want to inspire anyone exposed to one of our messages, that they are able to picture a better reality for themselves, their family and friends, their community, or even the world, and encourage that they hold the notion that such a visualized reality holds the possiblity that it could actually happen to turn out the way they imagined.
The most positive aspect of building hope in people is that it also builds a sense of community . Emphasizing the effects of being with supportive people is what we wish to display. Be careful that the messages are inclusive and not exclusive, that is, that they allow even one’s enemies to be a part of one’s hopes, not only one’s friends. Enemies may change to friends and friends to enemies, but people should be focused on and celebrating the notion that such things may be true, yet there still exists the everlasting fountain of hope that springs eternally and in abundance. Hope transcends all things. So, we would place our emphasis upon positive similarities as well – things we all have in common, such as, “We all dream of a world full of love and hope.”
The third criteria then is simply that having hope is magnificent - that is, it magnifies those realms of possibilities that together produce positive results. "Possibility Thinking" was what the Rev. Robert Schuler called it. If we illustrate possibilities for producing positive results, it will encourage people to imagine those possibilities as actually happening ... and if felt strongly enough, will have people acting "as if it were so" - a most powerful state of mind for producing positive results.
But we are not yet involved in "Messages of Action." That may come later, but until people feel they can accomplish change and all the other positive outcomes of having hope to begin with, they will not yet be ready to be able to think in terms of actions. Hope itself must come first.
Having hope involves one in the realm of possibilities, which, if manifested as reality, would improve people’s lives everywhere. But defining those possibilities too strictly will backfire on itself - the human spirit needs to be unchained and unbridled, allowed to feel its power in the fullest way so that later it can feel empowered to focus that power on actually creating results. Having hope allows the spirit to allow itself to soar! The act of individually choosing to allow the spirit to soar must come first. Hope empowers people to make such a choice.
So, “It’s an inside job,” as Trisa Fairchild put it so succinctly. We are dealing with a how a person feels inside of themselves about what is possible. Compassion, a clean world, love and peace, a clean conscience, unity, friends, loving one’s fellow man, altruism, patience, tolerance, delight, synergy, smiling, friendliness, reaching out and loving someone, gratitude, appreciation, aloneness vs. togetherness, one’s highest calling, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. These are "inside" jobs. Our role is to empower people to believe these kinds of things are things they can really experience for themselves.
(The following definition of the word ‘platitude’ is taken from the Devil’s Dictionary - A cynical view of the world written by Ambrose Bierce):
Let’s avoid creating such awful things!!!
Yes, these criteria make coming up with qualifying Messages of Hope into a real challenge, we are so inculturated by the fake and meaningless ones, or those well intentioned, but unwittingly causing more of what they would desire to eliminate!
Fear of oppression by religious factions,
manipulation by the media,
control by government,
loss of sexual freedom,
loss of freedom of speech and of the right to protest,
fear of being:
spied upon,
condemned,
ostracized,
divorced,
disliked,
unloved,
worthless,
meaningless,
pathetic,
broke,
hungry,
murdered,
imprisoned,
tortured,
evicted,
bankrupted,
foreclosed upon,
over-drafted,
judged unfairly,
raped,
conned,
addicted,
dishonest,
caught,
unfair,
controlling,
manipulating,
robbed,
losing possessions in flood or fire or hurricane or tornado,
loss of loved ones,
hatred,
prejudice,
abuse,
false accusations,
political ruination,
slander,
liable,
insurance liability claims,
lawsuits,
diseases,
fatal diseases,
doctors‘ bills,
surgery,
having an abortion,
not having an abortion,
child abuse,
child abduction and sexual abuse,
domestic violence,
loss of all security,
homelessness,
freezing,
mortality,
death,
loneliness,
emptiness,
gods,
religionists,
wars,
pestilence,
plagues,
phobias,
alien abductions,
enslavement,
being used as a guinea-pig,
bad reactions to medicines,
long term effects of pollutants,
global warming,
melting icecaps,
receding jungles and rain forests,
advancing deserts,
famine,
starvation,
tainted foods,
heavy metals poisoning,
parasites,
yeast infections,
being cut off from your spiritual self,
being separated from god,
going to hell, going to heaven,
going nowhere,
failure,
success,
losing everything,
change,
incorrect change,
not enough change,
changelessness,
eternity,
nothingness,
past lives,
karma,
past catching up with you,
bad leaders,
bad politicians,
bad police and law enforcement,
being a victim of society and of life in general, including:
computer crashes,
car crashes,
plane crashes,
terrorists,
bombs going off,
nuclear bombs,
car bombs,
suicide bombers,
bus bombs,
jet-airliner bombs,
poisoned water supplies,
poisoned air supplies,
poisoned food supplies,
poisoned medical supplies,
poisoned pills from the pharmacy,
fear of being made a fool of,
fear of making a fool of oneself,
fear of being laughed at,
fear of public speaking,
fear of embarrassment,
fear of ridicule,
fear of rejection,
fear of losing,
fear of being smeared,
fear of being lied about,
fear of being falsely accused,
fear of false arrest, fear of gossip,
fear of ruined reputation,
fear of destruction of life as you used to know it,
fear of losing security,
fear of government takeover,
fear of cultural differences,
fear of other races and peoples,
fear of religions,
fear of governments,
fear of armed forces,
fear of leaders,
fear of news media,
fear of false exposure,
fear of being "outed",
fear of people with different sexual preferences and lifestyles,
fear of people from different countries,
fear of people speaking different languages,
fear of angering your boss or clients,
fear of losing your business,
fear of losing your job,
fear of not finding a job,
fear of living an insignificant life,
fear of being crucified (figuratively or literally),
fear of fear itself.
The original idea of Messages of Hope was inspired by an article by Michael Lerner in Tikkun Magazine in which he described two opposing paradigms of fear and hope, along which we moved towards fear or towards hope day to day. James Baxter McFarlin and Keith Ray brainstormed up some very cool messages, kept at a pbwiki under Messages of James and Messages of Keith. We were originally planning to come up with some cool graphics and printed product lines that displayed these messages.
Along with that, I compiled an exhausting list of the fears we all live with to use as a counter to force us to think of the messages of hope we might compose to counter those fears. Read that only if you are feeling strong!
At the Messages of Hope pbwiki, I wrote many articles on management and brainstorming and such that will eventually be transfered here. In the process of trying to set up a company, I came to the hard-realized conclusion that I definitely am no manager and not the kind of person who makes a good entrepreneur (at least not without business-savvay partners handling that sort of thing!), and the idea was never brought into fruition. Obviously, a lot of energy was expended towards this business taking root by myself, James and Keith, and a number of my former FTCC students and friend Delaine Weddle. It is a shame it never went anywhere, but at least we did give it a go!