“Hell is gone and heaven's here,
there’s nothing left for you to fear.”

“This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells—that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one’s spiritual Self”

““In Hell you become what you fear yourself to be. In Heaven you may become what you hope yourself to be,” said Lucifer.”

“It's impossible to fear and love God at the same time. Simply, because you can't enter into heaven and hell at the same time!”

“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”

“No evil comes from the fear of hell, no good comes from the promise of heaven.”

“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.”

“Some of us are livin' in an earthly heaven,
Lord, some of us are livin' in hell.
Yeah, we're livin' in hell,
Right here.”

“If you believe in any religion you cannot meditate. Religion is an interference in your meditation. Meditation needs no God, no heaven, no hell, no fear of punishment, and no allurement of pleasure.”

“Since there is no work left in heaven, the purpose of being here on Earth is to work.”