
As quoted in Philosophy on the Go (2007) by Joey Green, p. 222
General sources
Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.
"The Library of Babel" (1941)
Variants:
I cannot think it unlikely that there is such a total book on some shelf in the universe. I pray to the unknown gods that some man — even a single man, tens of centuries ago — has perused and read this book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification.
May Heaven exist, even if our place is Hell.
"Deutsches Requiem". (Emece edition, 1974)
Que el cielo exista, aunque nuestro lugar sea el infierno.
Variant: Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.
Source: "Deutsches Requiem", de "El Aleph".
As quoted in Philosophy on the Go (2007) by Joey Green, p. 222
General sources
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
“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.”
“Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.”
The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
Context: The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision's greatest enemy.
Thine has a great hook nose like thine;
Mine has a snub nose like to mine.
Thine is the Friend of all Mankind;
Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
Thine loves the same world that mine hates;
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.
“You are my heaven, and you will always be my enternal hell!
~ Darling”
Source: Born of Silence
“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago