The Center of Spiritual Cultivation
The Center gathers
...to seek spiritual wisdom ...to meditate ...to connect with others
The Center meets each month
on the 1st and 3rd Sundays
on Zoom
unless otherwise announced.
For information about coming programs
April 6th
from 10:15 AM until Noon
Unlearning Cynicism
Claiming Hope
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For a Zoom Invitation​
Stanford University Professor of Psychology, Jamil Zaki published Hope for Cynics in 2024. He invites us to explore the limitations of Cynicism and the potential of Hope. He writes,
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“Trust, the willingness to be vulnerable to others, is an expression of faith that they will do the right thing. It is how hope lives between people. By eroding trust, cynicism steals our present together and dampens the futures we can imagine.”
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“To hope is to believe that something positive, which does not presently apply to one’s life, could still materialize. In other words, hope is a response to problems, not an evasion of them. If optimism tells us things will get better, hope tells us they could. Optimism is idealistic; hope is practical. It gives people a glimpse of a better world and pushes them to fight for it."