Abandon Hope

"Hope and fear is a feeling with two sides. As long as there's one, there's always the other ... Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty ... We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment." - Pema Chodron

It seems counterintuitive, but we can find greater peace and equanimity in our lives by fully accepting reality as it presents itself, rather than clinging to some alternative of how we'd like it to be. Let go.