Hope is Healthy / Attachment is not

We all need hope… hope for peace, happiness, health, financial stability, freedom, love and so on…

Hope for these fundamentals is essential for our soul… Hope is Healthy… Hope is what keeps us striving to better ourselves and the world we live in…

However, many people confuse Hope and Attachment.

Attachment is when we focus on having specific things and/or people and believe that it’s these things or people that will bring us happiness.

We often call ‘attachment’ hope, but they are not the same…

For example, when we fall in love we hope that this particular person will also want us… so rather than just hoping for love in general or a partner, we focus on this one particular person whom we want… this is attachment, not hope… we are not leaving it up to the universe or God, we are trying to control things to get what we want.

Another example is if we see a property that we really want… so rather than just hoping for a comfortable place to live, we become focused on having this particular property… and we can often go to all kinds of extremes to try and get it… once again this is attachment… we are not trusting that we will be given exactly what we need.

I believe that there is a much greater force that acts independently of us ‘willing things to happen the way we think they should’… so we may as well stop ‘willing things’, relax and enjoy life a little more.

Attachment is what causes STRESS… the biggest killer on this planet.

When we let go and trust, we relax and experience PEACE…

What would you rather?