Sometimes, thinking solely of our personal gratification, we tend to forget our interdependence with everyone and everything around us, so much so that we stop caring about them. While the greedy only think of themselves… These people learned early on to share and feed one another. It is simple, he said, Love only requires one skill. The people had the same long-handled spoons, but they were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. There was the large round table with the large pot of wonderful stew that made the man’s mouth water. God said, “You have seen Hell.”īehind the second door, the room appeared exactly the same. The man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. It smelled delicious and made the man’s mouth water, but the people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. Inside the first one, in the middle of the room, was a large round table with a large pot of stew. One day a man said to God, “God, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.” What is heaven? What is hell? The parable of the Long Spoons explains very well what heaven and hell truly are.
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