There is more than a glimmer of hope, but what's dark and defeated doesn't want you to know that. Negative states need you to feel a sense of hopelessness in order to prove their resistance-born assertions that all there is ahead (for you) is more pain and emptiness. I tell you otherwise, but it's going to be up to you what you see as being real once we illuminate the actual state for you.

The madness you feel isn't really yours. I know it feels that way, but this is because you're so busy struggling with these tormenting states you can't see their only power over you is to get you identified with their presence. Now listen: resistance IS identification; it's a form of negative fascination, whose chief feature is to produce a sense of being powerless in the face of what is feared. But look closer... and what you will see is that what you fear isn't the reality of the moment, rather what your mind imagines will be your reality. Then this same low level of mind resists what it projects, and the cycle of hopelessness starts. Shatter this cycle by understanding that while the feeling generated by these negative imaginings is real... the why is always a lie.

I'm not telling you to be strong. I'm saying see how you're being tricked into believing in weakness (that isn't yours). Yes, your wife is gone. Yes, you have cancer. But these are conditions that -- like all passing circumstances in life -- come with multiple possibilities. It's what we do with these moments that determines their value.

Snap out of it. Deliberately refuse to accept any dark state as your guide by calling its bluff whenever it appears. Remember what you love and what you know is true, and don't concede to hating what you're given to imagine and told is true. Within you lives something that doesn't just know better than to give up... it wants to lift you above these circumstances IF you will reach out for its Light. Persist!