Status Updates From The Book of Hope: A Surviva...

“I have experienced almost mystical moments of awareness when I have been alone in nature that might foreshadow the sort of heaven I like to imagine." (interesting…)

"Shakespeare put it so beautifully: ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.' I believe that opportunities arise and you can seize them, reject them—or simply fail to notice them.”

Albert Einstein: "The harmony of natural law ... reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant re-flection."

“As your days, so shall your strength be”

“I think many people have gifts that they don't know about because nothing forces them to use them."

"Overall, a resilient person is able to bounce back—or even bounce forward—-stronger as a result of the adversity, " I said. These people are more hopeful, and they may see challenges as opportu-nities."

Psychological resilience is the ability to cope with crises and to remain calm and move on from such incidents without long term negative consequences. Like a resilient ecosystem that recovers after a natural disaster or human-made dis-turbance, resilient people are able to recover-though it may take time depending on the severity of the trauma.