Fourth, as arcane as it may be, I've found hope in chaos theory. To me it means that corporations and governments focused totally on prediction and control will ultimately always be defeated. Fifth, Abrham Maslow, the great psychologist of the human potential movement, once wrote that the mature self-actualizing person is always somewhat prone to feel sadness and a measure of despair because he or she perceives life more truly as it is and less through wishes, denial and distortion. He maintained that joy in life is not simply the absence of pain, but suffering pain in the service of things that really matter. Occasional feelings of despair are therefore evidence that we are awake, not evidence of a personal failing.
Sadness is what a healthy human soul understandably feels in the present situation.
It's denial, apathy, and hostility that represent pathology. And every day, from a source far more mysterious than I can ever hope to understand, there pours in the energy and the hope for another day. This, more than anything, enables each new step.