Savitri (1918-1950), Book Two : The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Context: p>As in a studio of creative Death
The giant sons of Darkness sit and plan
The drama of the earth, their tragic stage.
All who would raise the fallen world must come
Under the dangerous arches of their power;
For even the radiant children of the gods
To darken their privilege is and dreadful right.
None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.</p
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications
“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“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)
In response on the motives of suicide bombers in a speech at Harvard University http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/11/AR2006091100315.html 11 September 2006)
Attributed
“Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.”
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”
“God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.”
"No Matter What".
2000s, Paper Trail
