I'm in alignment with your thoughts my brotha! I hear you. I'm trying to elaborate on concepts. You're equating hope with intention. There is always intention behind will, yes.
I would like society to transform into a communal culture. It's an ideal. You could say it's a hope, but I don't identify with it as a future destination because something either is, or it isn't. There is only the present moment. I don't place myself in the future, rather, I acknowledge and identify with what must be done in the moment. I put all my energy, faith, and will into transforming the moment. There is of course a part of me that contemplates the future, but I don't worry about it (identification). The present is what it is, I accept it. I visualize what I would like to see in the now. That's will. I focus on the present, and what needs to be done now.
If you truly didn't believe something could be accomplished, you wouldn't try. There are times when we go through the motions, but there isn't any faith behind the action. We are always acting on our hopes (what you are saying) until we realize what truly needs to be done (the point I'm making). Once we've polarized, meaning made what was unconscious, conscious, our will is more effective because we are truly working with what is in the present. We truly realize that hey, this is possible. It then becomes faith. It's why spiritual progression involves "..entering a more profoundly, acutely realized present moment."
I would like society to transform into a communal culture. It's an ideal. You could say it's a hope, but I don't identify with it as a future destination because something either is, or it isn't. There is only the present moment. I don't place myself in the future, rather, I acknowledge and identify with what must be done in the moment. I put all my energy, faith, and will into transforming the moment. There is of course a part of me that contemplates the future, but I don't worry about it (identification). The present is what it is, I accept it. I visualize what I would like to see in the now. That's will. I focus on the present, and what needs to be done now.
If you truly didn't believe something could be accomplished, you wouldn't try. There are times when we go through the motions, but there isn't any faith behind the action. We are always acting on our hopes (what you are saying) until we realize what truly needs to be done (the point I'm making). Once we've polarized, meaning made what was unconscious, conscious, our will is more effective because we are truly working with what is in the present. We truly realize that hey, this is possible. It then becomes faith. It's why spiritual progression involves "..entering a more profoundly, acutely realized present moment."