Every time you make a choice, you are turn­ing the cen­tral part of you, the part of you that chooses, into some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from what it was before. And, tak­ing your life as a whole, with all your innu­mer­able choices, all your life long you are slowly turn­ing this cen­tral thing either into a Heaven crea­ture or into a hell­ish crea­ture — either into a crea­ture that is in har­mony with God, and with other crea­tures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fel­low crea­tures and with itself. To be the one kind of crea­ture is Heaven: that is, it is joy, and peace, and knowl­edge, and power. To be the other means mad­ness, hor­ror, idiocy, rage, impo­tence, and eter­nal lone­li­ness. Each of us at each moment is pro­gress­ing to the one state or the other.

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