If you want to remain in Hell, it’s pretty easy to do – just keep on hoarding things — and keep on seeking superficial pleasures — and keep on justifying your excesses — and keep on denigrating or ignoring the poor in your midst.

If you want to enter life, it’s not that much more difficult – just start giving away your things — and start seeking contentment more than pleasure — and start shedding some of your excesses — and start being occasionally nice to the poor in your midst.

And yet if you want to get to the Kingdom of Heaven — if you want to “max out” your life as a Human Being and experience all the Bliss & all the Joy & all the Peace available to you, then you will have to do much more than that … You will have to give food to the downtrodden when you yourself are hungry; you will have to seek to bring others Joy when you yourself are in despair; you will have to donate your time to the needy when you are already running late; you will have to go out of your way to be reverently Kind to the poor in your midst.

This is The Way, my Friends … Walk it well.

“The Kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they be able to say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ For, in fact, the Kingdom of God is already within you” ~ Jesus Christ (Luke 17:20-21)

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