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Everyone Gets to Where They Are Going

Everyone Gets to Where They Are Going

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  • We’re all heading somewhere. Our character is an arrow, a path, a trajectory. Like it or not, your life is aiming at something. There is as destination you are walking toward. And the ultimate “judgment” that is passed upon our life by God is simply the generosity that allows you to get to where you are going. That’s C.S. Lewis’ vision of hell in The Great Divorce, that if your life is about choosing yourself, well, that’s what you get in the end, yourself. You will get to where you are going. That’s your punishment. Yourself. Conversely, if you’re choosing love, well, you will also get to where you are going.
    • Note: Cf. Angelo Dilullo’s comments about Zen stink, not judging the place the other finds themself in or the direction they’re headed, for many it’s exactly where you were at some point in the past. My comment: treat them with the grace now you wish you had been treated with back then. Also: it’s about setting directions, not achieving goals.