Significance implies that what we think, say and do has permanence and universality; but that clashes with a sinful desire that we can act without consequences, avoid responsibility.
A desire for significance also gets mixed-up with the desire for esteem, status, prestige - which lead to various types of pleasurable feeling.
Yet, in wanting significance in our lives; we are wanting an objective, solid, reality - not merely our personal feelings.
In essence, in wanting objective, solid significance; I think we want that (potentially) other people may always be able to know that-which is important in what we think or do.
We want other people to be able to find-out and know what Good we did. Find this out for themselves - without relying us on persuading them, or manipulating them in any way.
(The modern brainwashing processes of "celebrity status" perfomed by the mass and social media and their false, dishonest, artificial virtuality does not suffice. It does not do the job we want doing.)
But why should we want significance, rather than merely wanting pleasure for ourselves - here-and-now?
Ultimately, the reason is: because of love.
Ultimately, the reason is: because of love.
If we love, we want a shared world - that is an objective reality.
Heaven is the situation in which there is significance, permanence, universality; and Heaven is a place of love - and only of those who love.
Those who do not love, who do not want significance, reality, objectivity, permanence; these are the people who want more than anything current and perpetual pleasure - and they want it regardless of what happened in the past.
These people dwell in the state of Hell. Because Hell is a wholly-subjective world, a world where My subjectivity - because My pleasure - is primary.
By contrast; a world of relationships, like Heaven, must be objective; and to want objectivity is to want significance.
Note: This is edited from a blog post of 28th August 2019.
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