Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
i.254-255
Paradise Lost (1667)
Variant: The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Source: Paradise Lost: Books 1-2
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
20 December 1822
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.”
Gotta Make it to Heaven
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
Source: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9
“Can Hell and Heaven be merely the difference between ignorance and knowledge?”
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 16 (p. 158)
“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
