“"Then those people are right who say that Heaven and Hell are only states of mind?"
"Hush," he said sternly. "Do not blaspheme. Hell is a state of mind — ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind — is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly."”
Source: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9
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Paradise Lost (1667)
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Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
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Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

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20 December 1822
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