TODAY’S PRISM · June 23, 2026
The Hell We Keep Passing Forward
About a 3 minute pause
THE FAMILIAR VIEW
“Hell belongs only to a future life and has nothing to do with the suffering we create now.”
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ROTATE THE PRISM
Whatever hell may mean beyond this life, some of its conditions are already recognizable.
Shame can make love impossible to receive. Resentment can become identity. Unhealed pain can move through a family for generations.
Hell may begin wherever suffering is passed forward until everyone forgets another way is possible.
SIT WITH THIS
Which hell-like condition have I experienced within this life?
What pain am I in danger of passing forward?
“The tongue also is a fire… and is itself set on fire by hell.”
CARRY THIS TODAY
Interrupt one cycle of pain by refusing to hand today’s hurt to the next person.
“Every time pain stops with us, another future becomes possible.”