I watched this video and came across the idea of the infinate abyss going both down to hell and up to heaven.
Tolstoy’s Two Abysses
Tolstoy had a dream where he was suspended between an infinite abyss of darkness below that caused fear, and an infinite abyss of light and hope above him. The darkness represents an infinite abyss of hell—there is no limit to how far you can fall. But looking upward reveals an infinite abyss of heaven and God—boundless potential, infinite goodness, infinite possibility. There is no limit to how far you can rise if you orient your life upwards.
The choice is which abyss you look at. Which way will you orient your life?
The Upward Orientation
Jordan Peterson speaks constantly about this same idea: you always want to orient upwards. You can always climb another mountain. Reach the summit, and there’s always another peak beyond it. Another peak beyond that. This is the climbing of the tree of life—the idea that you can always go higher. The ultimate good, the ultimate high, is God. Not as a fixed destination, but as the infinite direction itself.
