People of hope and faith are often unrealistic, and the realists have little faith or hope. We shall find a way out of the present situation only if realism and faith become blended again as they were in some of the great teachers of mankind.*
Erich Fromm

Every idea and every pursuit of an idea inside us is life … The lack of ideas is death.**
Thomas Bernhard

Here it is again,
Faith and hope brought into play with reality,
Echoing Wallace Stevens^ hope of bring imagination together with reality
towards a new reality, Johan Huizinga^^ reconnecting
seriousness and playfulness, and Susan Cain seeing how:
creativity has the power to
look pain in the eye:*^
Faith, hope, imagination, playfulness, and creativity all being ways for us to be
active rather than passive,
Ways to engage reality, not to escape it.

*Erich Fromm’s The Revolution of Hope;
**Peter Turchi’s A Muse and a Maze;
^Wallace Stevens’ The Necessary Angel;
^^Johan Huizinga’s Home Ludens
*^Susan Cain’s Bittersweet.