Are you on the road to Hell? The Road to Hell is a great big freeway....

1. Road to Hell
October 10, 2020
Have you strayed on the way, and are on the road to Hell? Oh, No!…you just might be on that
road to Hell? Wake up and turn around, before there is no way back! The road to Hell is a great
big jammed freeway on a rainy, stormy night where you’ll never reach home again. You may not
have expected it, but has your life been filled with negativity and apathy to follow the high
roads of life. If life stops today, have you filled it with positive actions, blessings for others, and
the love of yourself?
Back when, one early rainy night I walked down Wall St. where I worked, I had a feeling in my
being that this narrow, short road was ultimately a road to Hell as much as I enjoyed it. It was
days before Christmas, and I was headed to a company Christmas celebration at the World
Trade Center’s ‘Window’s on the World’ 107 stories up over the world and New York City. Out
of the crowded room mixed with people from my company and our wealthy clients from law
firms, investment banks, and corporations came a surprise unexpected guest from one of the
law firms…a girl I had been engaged to a couple months before, came toward me. She wore a
blue fox coat with a big greeting smile, and after
a one month breakup.
Our encounter only lasted another month, but at
that moment as we looked through the night rain
out into the magnificent city, I felt that I had
reached heaven. A few years went by,
remembering that night, I sat out on my 40th
floor balcony over looking Central Park and
skyscrapers the day after Christmas, a vision
came over me that working in the great city of
New York was a road of riches, and maybe a road
to Hell. A few short years later I left that road and climbed the stairs to
a new life of meditation, giving, and enjoying a simpler life of nature’s
riches. The new life began in California, can’t say it’s all been
California and West Coast dreamin’, but giving up the ‘high flying’
opened up living on the ‘freeway’ of life to the road least traveled.
Is it the stairway to Heaven? Is there even a Heaven but within? Always climbing to the most
heartfelt option is in a sense, ‘a stairway to Heaven’. The stairway is not crowded but open to
everyone who opens their heart and journeys up to the valley of the rich in heart. The doors are
open and the stairway always beckons waiting for you to move in the direction of the light
above. Life has choices…with awareness and discernment of the most conscious path the
best answers are forthcoming.
Arhata~