(When John Adams and Jefferson discussed the possibility of a more conventional immortality, they tended to describe heaven as a place where they could resume their ongoing argument on earth).
The implication that discomfort might be a saving grace, a guard against complacency, is vintage Robinson, a woman who has a character describe heaven itself as "a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable".
There is a parable, found in cultures across the world, that describes Heaven and Hell as almost identical locales: in both, great tables are laden with a bountiful feast, but the only utensils available are unnaturally long spoons.
Some even find warrant for this devaluing of nature in passages like 2 Peter 3, which describes heaven and earth passing away.
While the Buddhist concept of heaven may be different than what westerners are used to in that it is not eternal, pretty much everything else about how these realms are described in Buddhist scripture are what one would typically describe heaven.
As Jackson described second heaven, third heaven and so on, it became clear that the levels get progressively less impressive and opulent as the numbers rise.
Wrigley Field is sometimes described as heaven for the baseball purist, but it is not.
Polamalu, 29, sought out the octogenarian monk, who resides in a monastery in southern Arizona, a few years ago, a meeting that led Polamalu to the place he described as "heaven on earth".
In the same battle, it is reported, the defenders dropped from the walls of the city a kind of bomb described as "heaven-shaking thunder".
