“Even Saint Thomas Aquinas let it out that part of the blessedness of the saints in Heaven was that they could look over the battlements and enjoy the ‘proper justice’ of the sinners squirming in Hell. All winners need losers; all saints need sinners; all sages need fools—that is, so long as the major kick in life is to ‘amount to something’ or to ‘be someone’ as a particular and separate godlet.”

— Alan Watts, The Book

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Beautiful

We just have to love Love

We can take the lowest position in life with love and be given the a place in the highest heaven. Those squriming in hell are only there because they said yes to the devil and no to Love. Hate is easy. Loving is difficult and takes the form of a cross