Quality of life is very difficult to define. So,what is “heaven” and “hell” for you in your daily life? Not in a theological sense, of course.
Thank you,
Paulo
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Gracias por los post es maravilloso poder estar en contacto!
En mi vida diaria mi cielo es poder hacer lo que me gusta, que es dar clases, y compartir esa maravillosa experiencia del aprendizaje con mis alumnos. Por otra parte mi infierno, es mi inseguridad, la soledad, el hecho de no poder entender aun que no necesito de una pareja para ser feliz, esperar cada día a que el “príncipe azul” toque mi puerta.
hell is when i cannot be honest when something stops me to tell the truth
when I doubt myself
heaven is when an unexpected comes in any positive/intellectual/kind/creative form and makes me be surprised and amused and feel feelings of unity with the better what it is in the world
I couldn’t describe the feeling better than Jimmy Hufso. Having the worst year in my life in 2008… January 1st 2009 I DECIDED
I couldn;t describe the feeling better than Jimmy Hufso. Having the worst year in my life in 2008… January 1st. 2009 I DECIDED to be happy, to feel happy every day. And peace is now a constant state of mind.`Even when things are still hard.
i find this topic really interesting. it made my nerve cells to work. hahaha
my hell is:
-when i’m not doing what i’m supposed to do
-being negative sometimes
-when i’m angry and when i’m lacking patience
-when i fear myself, lacking self confidence
-when my family is sad
-when i’m seeing these street children –no shelter, no food, can’t afford to study
-when i wasted my day without doing something different
my heaven is:
-when i give my most precious gift to everyone —SMILE :)
-when i was able to help a friend especially in times of adversity
-when i’m with my family, relatives and friends
-when my family is at peace, healthy spiritualy, mentally, physically and emotionally
-when someone appreciates me :)
-when someone gives compliment about anything that’s beautiful about me (at least according to him/her. )
-when i was able to give happiness to anyone
-when i spent the whole day so meaningful
-when i give compliments to others
-when i get high grades during exams
-when someone texted me saying.. “Good morning. Have a nice day!” or “Good night. Sleep well because tomorrow will be beautiful!”
-when Dad and Mom gave me a kiss. :)
-when someone says.. “Thank you!” to most importantly, when i give him/her a bigger “Thank you!”
Heaven, for me, is holding my fiancé in my arms and knowing that all is right with the world.
Hell, on the other hand, is getting the “Silent Treatment”.
Inferno, é vc. ficar o dia inteiro pensando em algo para achar uma solução. Dormir e sonhar com o problema. Acordar pensando como o universo poderá te ajudar. Receber sinais, que você não consegue entender, muitas vezes desacreditando que seria um sinal. Mas a partir do momento que sempre o mesmo te persegue, vc. vivencia o inferno.
Paraiso, é você deixar a vida te levar sem se desesperar com o amanhã. Viver um dia de cada vez. Amar, saber admirar a natureza(como agora que estou neste FDS em Ubatuba), molhar o pé no mar, sentir a brisa batendo no rosto, olhar as montanhas e sentir inveja dos passáros com seus cantos e asas que lhe dão o vôo da liberdade.
Paulo,
O inferno… é quando meus desejos não são realizados!!!
O céu… é quando meus desejos são realizados!!!
É isso… quando eu espero algo que não se realiza… acontece um inferno em meu íntimo, e quando meus desejos se realizam, seja um mero assento no ônibus pra eu ir sentada… já me sinto no céu! hehe
Abraço!
Heaven:
I wake up another day, my house is clean, dishes are done the night before. I get my space. I dont blame myself for the way I look, my extra pounds. I listen to my own compositions and feel blessed! I feel I am a fabulous person and can beat my negative emotions – I can say I dont care to what the rest of the world thinks about me. When I watch a great film which captivates me. When I listen to a ghazal of Mehdi Hassan or to Mozart. When I meet a like minded musician. I miss jamming with some friends I met few years back – oh how heavenly it was to sing then, beyond the barrier of fear of losing something. When I read Paulo Coelho.
I feel so good to appreciate and to be appreciated.
Hell:
I dont like people who ask questions about your weak points. I do not like being asked “how do you spend your time” “you got a job?” Insensitive comments and thoughts.
Heaven and Hell are related to states of consciousness.
Hell is a suffering state of consciouness; the worst level of which is where you are not aware that your are in that state so there is no way out, like bad dream but it is real. You are angry, vengeful, jealous, excessively lusty, and not aware that you are.
Heaven is were you are in a state of constant presence, aware, joyful, thankful, forgiving, loving… all without condition… and you are aware that you are so. This state of awareness allows you to share what you understand with others… you become a light in the world.
Be present and watch your ego (that which is in this world) dissolve.
G
heaven– believing there is someone who loves you unconditionally.
hell– believing no one loves you unconditionally.
Dear Paolo,my daily heaven is to feel helpfull,usefull.If i can make one other person happy,by helping him,giving him money or advice or anything that he needs,it would be heaven for me.My daily hell are the critical notes of my mum.She always criticizes me and it bothers me a lot.
Thank you.God bless you.
Daily bits of heaven: moments when falling into or coming out of sleep. That is when I can affect my dreams. Remembering bits of dreams later in the day. I don’t know why but this gives me so much joy. Starting vacations – the moment I leave work or am taking off in a plane. I love the feeling of knowing that it’s the start of a break. Leaving work at the end of the day – especially after a long day. I love the feeling of accomplishment and knowing it’s time to rest. That first taste of a meal when I’m really hungry or the first gulp of drink when thirsty. First sip of tea in the morning. Feel of a warm cat snuggling up by my side.
Daily bits of hell: Fear & self-doubt. Hating what I see in the mirro, feeling overwhelmed by credit card debt, worry over my health or the health of a family member. Seeing the Human Society commercials on TV that make me cringe at how anyone can be cruel to helpless animals.
This is such a wonderful question, and so many great answers!
My Hell is generally self created- worrying too much; past, present, future- too much.
Heaven is right now, this moment, living, breathing in the air, the sights the sounds. Appreciating the friends & family I may be fourtunate enough to be sharing it with, or enjoying the solitude and quiet to myslef…. And food,I do love sharing a good meal, a good meal can transform a moment.
Heaven is the state of my mind. Hell is the state of my desk. :)
Para mim o céu, no meu dia a dia, é quando me dou conta que os sonhos ainda existem e que ainda há tempo de realizá-los e o inferno é saber que os problemas também existem e são muitos mas que só podem ser resolvidos por mim mesma!!!
Heaven is an ever changing event trapped in the context of time, the day, the hour, a moment.
Watching my ten year old dance in the living room behind me is the current version of Heaven being shown me.
Feeling connected to loved ones is Heaven. And when am I not connected? Well that would be the other side of this illusion called Life and therefore Hell.
Loved Ones surround me in all forms and I genuinely feel as connected to trees and birds and stones and water and the stars as I do my daughter, family and friends.
Trees my sisters
Stones my companions
Birds my harbingers
Clouds my teachers
Water my comfort
To cast myself across the Earth’s verdant and goldenness…Heaven
To be trapped in a concrete city…Hell
To receive a kiss my angel..Heaven
To feel as close as can be in conversation…Heaven
To be isolated from the ones I love…My illusion of Hell
The Alchemy of Love
Ah, obrigado Paulo…eu leio muito bem o inglês, mas nunca conseguiria me expressar escrevendo a contento…rsrsrs.Estou muito confortável é com o bom Português,rsrsrs.
Bom, vamos lá!
Paraíso:Ter encontrado o que eu procurava a vida toda…
Inferno: O medo de nunca alcança-lo…
Esse é o sentimento…
I’ve always told people that my idea of hell was spending eternity locked in a room with my mother and heaven was watching my brother locked for eternity in a room with my mother.
Seriously, in this world, hell to me knowing that I could have done more as a caring human. Heaven is the constant state of bliss that my life gives me.
Hello Paulo,
It’s my belief that heaven & hell are simply concepts developed by religions to guide people to “be good”. For me, they are effectively the same, a reflection of each other.
Without ‘heaven’, one does not know ‘hell’ and without ‘hell’, you cannot appreciate ‘heaven’.
As your blog shows, every single person has a different interpretation of what is heaven & what is hell and if we reviewed every post here in your blog, we would find that one person’s heaven is another person’s hell.
That is because these 2 concepts are driven by emotion not by a reality. If we approach every aspect of life as neither ‘heaven’ nor ‘hell’ but instead accept it as a lesson, then we have an opportunity to adapt and embrace whatever comes our way.
There’s no doubt that every person faces hardship or difficulties in their lives in some shape or form, yet a person can think that what has transpired will also pass, that ‘heaven’ will once again come around.
This leads us to the concept of the wheel of life, where one day ‘heaven’ then next day ‘hell’, a continuous cycle throughout life. We should be mindful of this cycle and not look to pigeon hole something as ‘heaven’ or another thing as ‘hell’. Sometimes, this delineation can cause depression as some people may perceive everything in their life is ‘hell’.
Thank you for allow me to share my thoughts.
Besos
Gabriella
Paulo to me heaven is seeing smiles on faces, hearing innocent laugh and alot the big belly laughs. Heaven is seeing my two boys (age 3 and 5) hug each other and confort each other when they get in trouble for doing something wrong, or when early in the morning (much too early) my boys come in and give me a hug when they wake up, I hope for that every morning.
Hell it’s not a nice word and I have only been there a couple of time, the night when I was 11 and my mum got a phone call to say my dad had had an accident and then 9 days later to have a phone call telling us he had pasted on. I don’t like to think my life has those moment because I believe the universe is looking after me as I want to look after it. My life will always be ok my problem are so small they will get better, My life is heaven because it’s filled with lov, happiness and smiles. :)
I’m thankful for my life, so thankful.
Butterfly orchid on the edge of the forest – mosquito’s bite on the cheek;
Glass of vine with a sunset over Pacific Ocean – snow in March and stolen coat;
White dress wedding and thousands of flowers – countless checks to the divorce lawyer;
Baby’s first smile – guilt of never been able to protect your child from suffering;
Listening to the rain, but not alone – trying to write and answering somebody’s questions…
I think, there’s no hell in the daily life. Because every little thing is wonderful, every little thing can be good. If you know that, then you can live. I don’t wanna say, that I live every day as much as I can, but I do my best. I do my best that I can say at the end of the day “I did my best. I can be happy about that.” A girl wrote “Hell is when i wake up in the morning and i wish i never saw myself in the mirror and that i could go back and sleep forever”. But why do we think that it’s bad, when we look in the mirror and don’t like, what we see? It’s her opinion, I mean that’s okay, but I cannot agree with that. We should accept the person in the mirror, as long as we’re honest and we don’t have a remorse about something.
Heaven is .. how can I explain that? Heaven could be love, could be a real friend, a family member, it could be music, or just luck. Yes, I think luck is heaven. Everything, you can define with heaven has something to do with luck.
And now, I want to thank you, Paulo.
You changed my life.
Now, I ask myself how many people said that to you.
Obrigada,
Jenny
Heaven:
A ride around the Swan River on a glorious day when the sun is shining.
Cooking from a recipe and having great success and eating fine food.
Knowing that my fiance loves me (and will always) despite my many failings
The sense of achievement and happiness felt after exercise
A cup of really good coffee
Being there for friends and knowing I have at least a few friends that understand me.
Knowing that my relatives in Italy are thinking of me and I of them even though we are separated by distance and a language barrier.
Achieving something I’d first thought impossible and finding enjoyment along the way
Hell:
Waking up in the morning with a pounding heart and butterflies in my stomach for no apparent reason.
Feeling less capable than my peers
Not being able to exercise because of crappy weather ;-)
People’s selfish motives
Fatigue, powerlessness and apathy, especially in combination
Dear Paul
Heaven for me is being organised. Physically and mentally. I need to be able to find things, its a relief to get things done. Draw lines under things.
Hell is when I have too much internal emotional chatter and too much to do. It makes me just want to go to bed and sleep, procrastinate.
Nice question :)
My hell:
When life becomes a routine and I start acting, talking, like a robot, automaticlly; forget to really feel to really live and wonder about the simple things in life…
Heaven:
Give hapiness, maybe with something simple, but that can change or help someone…
And love, any kind of love…
Paulo,
Para mi el cielo y el infierno son simplemente representaciones teológicas de algo totalmente intrínseco al ser humano que es el premio y el castigo.
Crea uno en lo que crea, incluso si uno no creyera en la religión.
Irse cielo seria bajo esta premisa, el premio de haber realizado las cosas bien (según sus propios valores morales y culturales).
Irse al infierno, o estar en el infierno, o sentirse en el infierno, es claramente el castigo por haber corrompido esos valores morales, culturales, profesionales.
Y este castigo o premio no tiene por que ser aplicado por terceros, también podríamos premiarnos o castigarnos nosotros mismos, haciéndonos un regalo? comprándonos algo que nos guste, si es un premio, y privándonos de lo mismo o cayendo en un circulo de depresión en caso contrario.
Mi humilde opinión.
Omar (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
¡Buenas tardes Sr. Coelho!
Son muy interesantes todas sus preguntas, invitan a la reflexión.
En una ocasión leí una pequeña anécdota o cuento con la que me sentí identificada, lo describo a continuación:
Un samurai le pregunta a su maestro que es el cielo y que es el infierno, el maestro le contesta que es un insensato y que no va a contestar a su pregunta, el samurai se molesta y desenvaina su espada, el maestro le dice “eso es el infierno”, entonces el samurai recapacita y guarda su espada, “y eso es el cielo” agrega el maestro.
Así es, pienso que cada uno de nosotros creamos nuestro propio cielo o infierno según la forma en la que manejamos a nuestras emociones.
Cuando las controlamos, nos colocamos en el cielo, cuando dejamos que sean ellas las que nos controlen, entonces convertimos a nuestra vida en infierno.
Personalmente yo he estado en el infierno cada vez que me he dejado llevar por la tristeza, los celos, el miedo y el enojo, sin embargo, estoy aprendiendo a controlarme, estoy aprendiendo a crear mi propio cielo.
Que Dios lo bendiga. Con cariño, Coco Hernández, una más de sus lectoras mexicanas.
PD. Cuando trabajaba en ocasiones más de ocho horas diarias y, la mayor parte del día estando de pie, mi cielo era llegar a mi casa, ponerme unos shorts o un pants y unas cómodas “chanclas”.
Is very simple for me now, a few years back I would have had a different opinion. My Hell is the constant pain I live in every second of everyday. My heaven is all what this condition has brought into my life, cause even though I can not do all the things I used to, and I gain so much heartaches and disappointments I know now what is important in my life. Because of my Hell I found my true happiness and therefore my Heaven. I know now that one makes the other, is only when you suffer that you find your true self.
Well done Tania! Most of us who suffer less have not the insight that you have. You have ensured much and turned it into a positive insight. Truely, you have achieve far more than most! It is only by knowing ‘hell’ one can discover ‘heaven’ and of course, vice versa.
My dearest wishes to you, and thank you for sharing a part of you with us all. May your path be bright so that all may find their way as you have done.
i think heaven is pure peace of mind. i think whenever my heart is filled with love and my soul is in peace im in heaven.
Let me see..
The truth is that these days diffrent situations shake up my world!
But I guess this is LIFE, to live in this world with “hell” and as well with “heaven”.
For me hell is when I feel powerless under difficult situations, when I have important decisions to do and there is nobody to help me..when i see my mother to cry…when my brother argues with my father…what is more, hell is when I realise that I have not done the things I wanted to do and, the worst is that, I realise that time is goes by very fast!!
On the other hand, heaven for me is a beautiful day with sunshine having a cup of coffee and enjoying the quiet!Furthermore, being with good friends and chatting..and the most important feeling ok and satisfied with my self and the things that I have done and achieved!!
Hell and heaven are preety closed and this depend on us,
on how we react,
on how we act ,
and how we live…
Hell to me is experiencing an emotion or feeling and not sharing it with others or even denying it all together.
Heaven is expressing love and experiencing every bit of it until it seems like there is no more love to give, then pulling out a little (or alot) more.
hell & heaven in my soul every day.
Women
Céu: Eu
Inferno: Os outros
My every day hell and heaven,
I am so fortunate to study “Global Leadership and Sustainable Development” on Hawaii.
But for the time that I am here, i live in Waikiki – the worst place of all places in Hawaii. No hawaiin culture, like language food etc.
But everytime I leave this part to go to University or to visit the beautiful museuums and nature, I feel 100 times better. Because power, energy and creativity come back then, which Waikiki somehow takes from me.
I start thinking about my thesis, about texts that I have read and what I myself can do when I think about this big word “Sustainability”, like not going to McDonalds anymore.
Let love rule,
David from Germany (at the moment Hawaii)
Hell is having to wake up for ground hog day where i ship my kids off to their designated place for the day. Knowing that it’s going to be at least 9 hours until i see them again.
Hell is having to go into work to a job which has slowly wore me down to the point of hating it. Hell are the thoughts that persecute me when i think about the choices i have or haven’t made that have lead me to this point where i am back on an estate i grew up with my children.
Heaven is shutting down my PC and making my way home. Hell is the actual journey on public transport.
Heaven is hearing my kids say ‘Hello Mummy’ and the hug i receive.
Hell is worrying about feeding my family before bedtime. Hell is the reminder of my community when the lift doors open yet again full of piss and i have the take the stairs up too many storeys.
And if im lucky, Heaven is my orgasm if i get to make love before i sleep. Thats if im not too tired.
Dear Paulo:
When you just cast a glance on this subject, you may think that it is just like other words which comes to your mind and be gone before you notice what they were, but if you look at them carefully you will definitely find out that these two simple words will cover our whole world and will have a huge impact on every single act or behave we make .
It really made me think much closer to my life and learn what is really going on and what is my meaningful and true desire to make my every day’s heaven and what is not to put me in coldness and darkness of hell !
I am working on it and please accept my warm thanks to remind me our existence .
Regards
Amir Gh
Saludos, Paulo. Estas pasadas semanas mentalmente en varias ocasiones los términos de infierno y paraíso me han estado viniendo a la mente y asignando escenarios para cada uno de ellos aunque ha sido algo esporádico, y ahora me topo con que tienes un blog para esto, causalidad. Infierno: todo aquello que me sofoca y me quita las ganas de vivir, que me atrasa y me hala hacia el piso, que me desespera y me quita las fuerzas vitales, que me abosrbe el último aliento de vivir en este Planeta, las guerras entre los países hermanos de Gaia, las pugnas por los egos fatídicos del ser humano y su deseo insaciable de dominar y matar; Mi paraíso son los momentos en que la energía divina fluye a través de mí, cuando me siento querida y mimada, la sonrisa de mi amada madre y hermana, las caricias de mis perritos, la bendita compañía de mis buenas amistades, la comodidad monetaria, la placidez de una tarde a las seis trenta donde las puertas cósmicas se cierran, la hermosura de una playa tropical y el verdor de un bosque natural, el amor en todas sus dimensiones, aquellas conocidas por mí y las aún por descubrir, el amor por ende, de mí misma y de la gente buena de este Planeta.
Well.. I could had post lots of complainings and bad things that happens everyday in my daylife.. but this wouldn’t make me feel any better. So i decided to reflect about this topic “Hell/ Heaven” and notice that earthly life has both in the same line. Futhermore our real challenge is to pass through the hell with patience and faith and celebrate the joy of being in heaven even if for a moment!!!!!
You just made me look through my life and make some conclusions about it….so, what i think HELL in my daily life is:
1.when my parents fight and don`t realize they ruin their own lives
2.my dog was poisoned by a crazy man a few days ago, while she had born 4 little dogs a few weeks before
3.that i can`t find a job for half a year
4.that my elder brother cheats on his wonderful wife even if they have 2 little children
5.people`s attitude in my country…they are rude and selfish
6.my boyfriend lives in the USA and i got visa refusal to get there
7.the death of my grandmother, and after 3 month my grand father`s death
…..lots of other things
Heaven:
1.when i get up late, am alone in the house, drink my cup of coffee and surf the internet all day long
2.when i do my job
3.watching Sex and the City :)
4.reading P.Coelho`s next book
5.warm summer wind that comes in my room every night
6.walking in the night city
7.listening to Cafe del Mar songs and thinking about…
8.my mother`s sweet hugs and kisses
9.the smell of smelling sticks…especially Sandal smoke
10.travelling
many other things can be added though
Me parece una bonita pregunta tan dual como lo es la vida. Yo intento de cada dia de mi vida hacer un cielo en este infierno terrenal pero no siempre lo consigo(quizas es mi espiritu idealista).
Para mi el cielo de cada dia es mirar los ojos de mis hijos y ver en ellos felicidad, salud, amor, energia etc. Es tambien estar en contacto con la naturaleza y sentir en ella la presencia magica de la vida fluyendo por todas partes, es sentir constantemente la presencia de Dios en todo lo creado, cuando planto semillas y tiempo despues veo florecer las plantas, las flores, los vegetales, es un regalo divino para mi poderlo disfrutar con mis hijos, mis gatos, mis conejos, cuidando mi casa y mi jardin ese es MI CIELO.
Mi infierno es la otra cara de esta moneda, siempre mi ideal fue una bonita y maravillosa familia, pero hay esta mi infierno, ya que el hombre del que me enamore, y con el que la forme, me traiciono de distintas y muy bajas maneras, aunque seguimos viviendo juntos yo ya no puedo confiar en el mas. Me tiene atrapada en su mundo por mis hijos y uno de ellos es un bebe aun, no es facil empezar de cero para una mujer sola con tres ninos, pero no pierdo la esperanza y confio que el cosmos me abra caminos nuevos para mi y los mios.
Saludos.
heaven: im looking forward to 16. oktober, when i will be a diplomated biomed. analytical at our diplomparty!
hell: next two weeks full of examinations and a presentation (with a big publicum)
Funny you bring this up this week because I had a short talk on this very topic this week with some friends. I think hell is an absence of love and it’s love that is within that is lacking. For the most part, I feel that heaven is here and now and I realize it is because of this sense of love. Then I reflect on whether I have experienced hell in this life, which would be times when love was absent from me. I do not think I have.
I made myself respond before reading others’ thoughts on this. Now I will read see some of the ways people perceive heaven and hell.
Heaven is when I do not have to worry about anybody and just be myself… I am free and not chased by any dependents… I can give because I feel like it not asked for it. It is feeling energy. Positive energy and motivation to live a wonderful day. Going for a walk in nature. Drinking a hot coffee accompanied by a good fried and laugh. Being around young people who want to dance and laugh. Being around elderly people who love to share their wisdom.
Hell…is the boring day, monotonous and dull. Is not having energy to exercise and have a fun day. Is feeling indifFerent. Is worrying about others and not be able to help. Is depression and isolation…
Dear Paulo,
Thank you for your daily insights-they mean alot.
Heaven-Freedom within yourself
To be loved and to love in equal measures
Fresh air, nature, the sea, the full moon
Innocence and knowledge
Friendships
Hell-To feel the need to be in control of situations that can’t be controlled.
To feel the pain and unrest of others and not to be able to release it.
To stand alone.
To have to pretend that everything is ok.
heaven: everyday simple life – my 2 children (everything about them), my 2nd half-my love (everything obout him), my students, friends and familly, beer, dancing, listening to good music, laughing, cooking, cofee on my teras, nature in all shapes, sea, driving my car, talking,….
I just realize that there are more good things, much more, than bad. So many things make me happy.
Hell is allways near, and in my life it’s made by people who are, from some unknown reason to me, jealous at my life, although my life is so simple.
I go every day new step, usually i go forward and enjoy it, sometimes it’s different, but there is allways a new day and a new step.
So, i think we make our own heavens and hells. They are “helped out” by my near ones and dear ones, others shouldn’t count. Things and people that make our hell moments, push aside, and smile away! :)) I try, it works mostly, but not allways.
Heaven is all around me: today my son celebrated his 6th birthday, and i’m so tired that i can’t think, but i’m happy because he was excited and happy all day long. His sister (8 years) kissed him for good night and wished him one more time happy birthday, because she was happy with him all day. Isn’t that heaven?
love,
ivana
Srecan rodjendan vasem sinu!Jos puno takvih rodjendana sa vasom decom vam zelim od srca.
Translate: Happy birthday to your son and I wish you from my hart, many birthdays like that with your children.
Céu.
Tenho 42 anos e um marido apaixonado.
Duas filhas adultas que, não me dão trabalho.
Trabalho há vinte anos na mesma instituição. Instituição brasileira,
o que me dá muito orgulho.
Vou a pé para o trabalho. Hoje em dia, isso é um luxo.
Tenho os mesmos amigos desde a adolescência.
Desconheço os meus inimigos. Pelo menos, até hoje, não apareceram.
Na minha cidade, conheço muitas pessoas e todas me conhecem.
Estou bonitona até hoje. É o que dizem.
A minha vida é bem sossegada.
Inferno.
Inferno será se os ítens acima começarem a dar problema.
A vida é uma caixinha de surpresas…
Obs: Paulo, você é muito gente boa.
Entro na internet, nos finais de semana,
só pra ler as suas idéias.
Abraçosssss
HELL…[was] my family for many years in an extremely destructive torturesome marriage…the two closest people in my life, my best friend [who claimed to be extremely religious] and my wife, having an affair for so long…so very very painful. i imagine my marriage was like being in an australian immigration detention center, a living NIGHTMARE in a LIVING HELL. i was blinded by the illusion i was staying for the children…father, mother and two children so emotionally scarred.
HEAVEN…5 years later…LOVE, FORGIVENESS, LIFE, PARENTHOOD, FRIENDS, SINGLE, ‘discovering the alchemist’, LOOKING FORWARD…being the best DAD and EX-HUSBAND i can possible be…
every day i’m still alive and breathing is a MIRACLE, putting on my rollerblades and going for a very FAST, HARD in-line skate…’knowing GOD has given me another chance’.
Hell:
is seeing pain, emotional, spiritual and physical of others. I live in Los Angeles.
is my “fear” of risking myself for the benefit of another, just because i am shy or an introvert.
Heaven:
Is being humbled by irony. When I am running late for work and i leave my house late only to be stopped by the sunrise with its beauty that i would not have seen if i had left on time before the sunrise.
is seeing the joy of discovery on the faces of children everyday at my job. I work at a Childrens Museum.
Heaven for me is being in contact with nature.Feeling, sensing,tasting,seeing and listening to all the beautiful things that are around us.
Hell is when people destroy the beautiful things that are around us including themselves and the rest of human beings.
heaven is when I can feel the love and respect of my family and friends.
hell is when I cant give them what they need, or when I feel being betrayed.
life is urgent. love is never complete..
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