“If anyone uses this life in such a way that he directs it to that other life as the end which he loves with ardent intensity …, it is not absurd to call that person happy even now, although happy in hope rather than in this reality” (Augustine of Hippo).
Another good post! This view is in total contrast to Nietzsche who proposed focusing on the afterlife disorients your focus from this life now, whether moral, rational, or a sense of aliveness. But that is a false dilemma. He seems to solely compare heaven and earth as 'side-by-side' worlds, like in ancient Greek mythology, rather than as a way of looking through in Spirit. In the Spirit is to look through a heavenly lens or along a heavenly path to live on earth as it is in heaven. It is from which to which, not this world next world.
Another good post! This view is in total contrast to Nietzsche who proposed focusing on the afterlife disorients your focus from this life now, whether moral, rational, or a sense of aliveness. But that is a false dilemma. He seems to solely compare heaven and earth as 'side-by-side' worlds, like in ancient Greek mythology, rather than as a way of looking through in Spirit. In the Spirit is to look through a heavenly lens or along a heavenly path to live on earth as it is in heaven. It is from which to which, not this world next world.
What a glorious way to start a new day, in hope!