Anti-woke trope

It’s become a cultural staple, a media trope, this ball-cap business of loving God in a straight-to-hell kind of way.

In the bardo (3)

One of the best depictions of hell (that is, a state we create for ourselves) is found in Samuel Beckett’s two-act play Waiting for Godot, during which two men sit under a leafless tree waiting endless days for a man who never shows up.

The vast of heaven

The scientist says, “There are 37 trillion cells in the human body.” The poet says, “I am large. I contain multitudes.” Both of these statements knock hell out of our belief in littleness.

Dubious achievements

High on the list of ego’s most dubious achievements: Feelings of guilt. A belief in hell. The idea that heaven is an achievement.

In the beginning

Things that begin well end that way too.

Siena’s famous daughter: “All the way to heaven is heaven.”

And the unavoidable corollary, that it is hell all the way to hell? True, too.