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What does it mean?
Earth is presented as the highest heaven and greatest school.
In plain terms
Earth is the best place to learn and grow.
What can you take from it?
Treat earthly life as the primary school.

Where it applies

  • daily life
  • spiritual practice
  • learning

Putting it to work

  • learn daily
  • value life
  • study earth

Questions to consider

  • Is earth a school to you?
  • What do you learn here?

Another view

Some view heaven as distinct from and superior to earth.

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