Heaven and Hell

by Paulo Coelho on September 7, 2009

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
P.S. – my “heaven” and “hell” I updated all my posts, and you can see them now on SEPT 12 AT 4:47 PM

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Huda Qasim September 23, 2009 at 11:56 am

Heaven : Wake up every morning in a good health, able to do what planned for, enjoy the moment.
Hell : Loose loved ones weather family members or close friends or hear they are sick, see children hungry,see elderly people mourning their children…..!!!

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Sofia September 23, 2009 at 9:14 am

Hell: falling asleep alone every night
Heaven: a day when i look good, manage to do the things i planned, get to do some sports and have a beautiful evening with a lot of friends

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PATRICIA September 22, 2009 at 8:18 am

Pour moi l’Enfer c’est le Paradis et le Paradis c’est l’Enfer…

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Sabina September 22, 2009 at 2:49 am

Im not sure if you read all of these, but I suddenly have a new perspective of heaven and hell, and even on society and the way it bores itself into our existence without our even knowing it as smart as we all think we are. I have just become aware of an old lover that killed himself by throwing himself in front of a train. I know that I know this man in ways, better than his friends and family and I cannot express my feelings the way I wish. He was in hell, his life was so painful that even killing himself in this manner was a respite of whatever it was he could bare no longer, even the needfulness of his two young children whose mother was a gambler and destitute. Some days or weeks before, he asked to get together, I didnt even bother to answer a yes or a no because I was in a new relationship and he would not have liked it if I had gone to see my old friend. I didnt do what I wanted to do, to go see my friend with out expecations, I did what I had to do not to hurt my new friends ego and pretend my feelings were dead between myself and my old love. Love never dies, the good always survives. We bring it with us forward, we CAN love more than one person at a time, why cant society accept we all need eachother, not to deny love to our friends and lovers no matter how old or new. It doesnt have to be physical, love transcends all that, it knows better than we do, we just learn it too late. My love to you always David Moreau, Im sorry I let you down.
Sabina

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Raluca September 22, 2009 at 1:35 am

For me hell is seeing how easy a malicious misrepresentation can propagate, and how real value can be missed or, so much worse, sabotaged. Also having to choose between your dreams and the happiness of others.
Heaven is time, and the right circumstances at the right time, sharing, perceiving all what one did not learn or received a proof for, in spite of that. Heaven is communication not just through music or words, or an osmosis…cohesion, having evolved there and seeing more and more open minds…

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Kiran September 21, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Heaven is being in sync with the voice of your soul, having the capability to follow your heart and to love.
Hell is being disoriented by self interest, incapability to love and being loved and turing deaf to nature

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Milind Sawde September 21, 2009 at 11:14 am

I think the Heaven is the work which you are doing if it is of your core interest, without the thinking of loosing and getting where you deeply involved and you just forgot the surroundings.
Hell is just opposite of it,the work which you are doing is only at the scope of giving and taking relationship and where you don’t have any interest in doing it.

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Milind Sawde September 21, 2009 at 11:10 am

I think the Heven is the work which you are doing if it is of your core interest, without the thinking of loosing and getting where you deeply involved and you just forgot the surroundings and I think the Hell is opposite of it means the work which you are doing is just at the scope of giving and taking relationship and where you don’t have any interest but just doing it.

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Maria September 20, 2009 at 8:34 am

Well, heaven is when I wake up after a whole night’s sleep to a new day and my little son puts his arms around my neck and says: “Mum, I love you”.
Hell, or the worst I know, is the constant worrying about not to be able to sleep at nights. In periods I wake up several times because of my son’s problems with night fear… It’s torture when you don’t get the chance to sleep.

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Marlene September 19, 2009 at 9:52 pm

Heaven is the freedom in my heart, silence and pure bliss of just being. Hell,I don’t care about anymore as I am learning how to feel free through pain.

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Elijah September 20, 2009 at 2:30 am

Heaven is the state of being capable to know that one never knows everything and learns from the smallest things. Hell is perfection.

Irene September 18, 2009 at 7:10 pm

Heaven: To fell the true love of your lover
Hell: To fell completely alone in the middle of the crowd

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Maurizio Isernia September 19, 2009 at 12:43 am

Maestro

Grazie a Dio sono sano ed al momento conosco solo un paradiso bellissimo ove vivono i miei figli, la donna che amo, i miei amici …..

E lei !!!

Zahira September 17, 2009 at 8:11 am

Hi
Heaven to me is peace of mind. Being able to live my life without having to doubt myself, compare myself to the likes of supermodels, to be able to have an opinion and merely to exist in this vibrant changing diverse world where we are all so uniquely different!
Hell is losing the opportunity to make the choice on how to live your life.

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MLourdes Tovar September 17, 2009 at 6:34 am

El Cielo: Sentirse en paz. La cabeza, el cerebro tranquilo.

El Infierno: Amar a alguien que no puede amarte.

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Anastasia September 16, 2009 at 12:35 am

heaven – is the smiles of people around and being able to smile back.. hell – when you hate people around you and notice every mistake they make.

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XOAKIN September 15, 2009 at 5:47 am

Heaven>Tekila,Cherries and Chokolate.
Hell> Day after.

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Laelc September 17, 2009 at 6:04 pm

It´s true.

It´s small your heaven, It´s big your hell.

Bye

Laelc

azilda September 15, 2009 at 12:45 am

Hell and Heaven represent the past and the future, a human condition. Between these two feelings there is a gap in which we may choose to live in ever seconds and breaths of our present. Some times we go for it and at other times we get bogged down by the human conditions.
i would say the between state is Here

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Kelly Salasin September 14, 2009 at 4:53 pm

hmmmmm… great question…
heaven is feeling the fullness of my connection to all, to spirit, to wisdom and knowing–
hell, is thinking
without the awareness of heaven

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Jane September 14, 2009 at 1:15 pm

I think my heaven and hell changes each day.

Today my hell is that our dog, Harley, cannot get up on his own. When I look into his beautiful brown eyes and I do not know what he is thinking. When I don’t know if he knows how much we love him and how much we want to help him.

My heaven today will be when I am able to help him get better. For the momet while I wait for the clock to reach 8am, to reach the vet, I will simply love him and lie beside him telling him what a wonderful friend he is.

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Paola September 14, 2009 at 11:59 am

Well heaven has to be the first time that you hold your baby, the first look into your baby’s eyes, the feeling that a little being has came from you and what once was part of you now is an idependent being and seen there in your arms looking right to you that has to be heaven.
Every little moment of happines and realization has to heaven.
Hell I think is the few moments in life that you do not feel confortable with your life and dreams, moments that you think that life is not worth living, thank God those are a few moments but when you past trught them everything is fine again.

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Clara Z September 14, 2009 at 10:18 am

Hell is every time in my mind I still hear those words, see those hands, live through that scene again and believe I’m still that child.

Heaven is when I hear my 6 years old Autistic daughter saying a new word, yestarday for the first time she sang ” Hapy Bi-day Baby” to herself, Heaven is just so so so so so beutiful….

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Sama Singer September 14, 2009 at 9:19 am

Heaven to me : whenever I feel calm and pleasant.. that feeling of satisfaction … My heaven is when I remember old good times when I am down, when I pray & Talk to God about what annoys me
Hell to me: when I feel down or I feel that I am being misunderstood, when I read news about massacres and swine flu
cheers Paulo I <3 u!!

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rocio September 14, 2009 at 8:20 am

Heaven is waking up happy and calmed
hell is arguing with the person you live with

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Stephanie September 14, 2009 at 7:51 am

In everyday life, heaven for me is feeling love both from myself to others and for me from others. Hell is the (hopefully erroneous) perception that love does not exist for me from the one most loved.

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Laelc September 14, 2009 at 6:12 am

Hi! Here I am once again.

You have reason. To eat chocolate is a great pleasure, but what do you think about a very delicious coffee with a delicious bread. Here in México, there are a great variety of sugar bread that in other parts of the world are called pastries, and when you go to the bakery, it´s very difficult to choose one favorite. There are many favorites.

Thank you

Laelc

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Noppie September 14, 2009 at 3:55 am

Heaven or hell in my life is not being fucked with. Having control over my life, traveling on the path I plan not dictated by others.

I find it very difficult to just accept what is. To clarify others have demanded that I comply with their demands. They demand that I follow whatever agenda they set. Example I work for the United States Postal Service delivering mail on what they call the rural side. My Postmaster and supervisor demand that I work 12 hours a day 6 days week but only get paid for 6 hour and forty-five minutes each day. I have refused to work beyond the 6 hour and forty-five minutes. I know they will fire me. I know there are laws that say they cannot do that. I have contacted the various authorities within the state and federal government to get them to enforce those employment laws. They have refused. So I know I will lose. So I have refused work for free.

So long as others have control over my life. I know those others can make demands that in turn my life into a living hell. So if you want nothing what so ever. OTHERS will never have control over you. Bad news is that we all want something.

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aditya September 14, 2009 at 9:55 am

Hi Noppie !

u seem right buddy.

about the authorities not taking action, the trick according to me is to always write to the person and mark copy to his/her boss, and include one line that if within such and such period ( 2 months may be Ok for your case, i don’t know, u are better judge in this case ) if u do not receive a response u will write to next higher authority. there are some sincere people in government also. give it a fight before u get fired.

love
aditya

Kathleen September 14, 2009 at 10:54 am

I agree with Aditya. Keep a copy of the letter and if they fire you go public with it.

Ellen September 14, 2009 at 2:38 am

Inferno:

Separacao do Criador, Angustia, Solidao, Medo, Desespero, Decepcao,Traicao,Injustica,Desorientacao, Desilusao,Aceitar o que nao queremos,Alma destruida.

Céu:

Intimidade com o Criador,Compreencao e Entendimento da propria alma,Balanco,Integridade,Caracter, Equilibrio,Amar e reciprocamente ser amada, Paz de espírito, Serenidade, Confianca.

Estes sao para mim, os reflexos dos raios de Céu e Inferno na vida cotidiana.

Saudacoes,
Ellen

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Aisha September 14, 2009 at 1:45 am

I do believe that heaven and hell are here on earth, they are a product of the choices and decisions we make. Heaven is the peace while hell is war. They are inseparable in some way

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Joel September 14, 2009 at 1:29 am

Heaven=playing like a child
Hell= to serious

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Ca September 14, 2009 at 1:29 am

Oups, j’ai oubliée :

Ciel : Ne plus avoir peur… :)

Ahhhh !! et aussi : savoir que tt ce que se passe une fois, peut ne pas passer une dieuxieme, mais si se passe une deuxième surement se passera une troisième…

Et aussi pouvoir te dire : Je t’aime et tu es et sera toujours un maitre pour moi !!

MARG,

Ca

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Ca September 14, 2009 at 1:20 am

Le ciel pour moi :
Sentir l’amour, la gratitude, la paix, le bonheur, la foi, regarder le ciel, les étoiles filantes, le soleil, la lune, la nature, la seine, la mer, la plage, les sourires des gens, les échanges des gentillesses entre les inconnus, savoir que tt va bien avec ma famille, mes ami(e)s, toi, t’avoir rencontrée, venir sur ce site, tous les jours , des que je me réveille voir ce que tu as écrit sur le le msg du jour, être bien dans ma peau, sentir l’avance dans ma vie, penser au mec plus beau du monde, penser a ses yeux, rêver de faire l’amour avec lui, sentir un feeling, écouter de la musique, danser, recevoir des signes de l’Univers qui je suis dans le bon chemin, réussir a avancer dans mes démarches, me faire bien comprendre, connaitre des gens bien, remercier toujours, les tournesols, les chiens labradors, nager, voyager, le reiki, faire du bien a mon prochain sans rien attendre, penser a tout encore ce que je veux faire dans ma vie, croire dans mes rêves, écouter mon cœur, accepter mon amour, m’améliorer, être plus organisée, apprendre plus sur moi-même, voir que le temps peut faire énormément les choses changer, la patiente, sentir qui tous sommes UN, me sentir en amour avec l’Univers, m’accepter, savoir que rien dans la vie se passe par hasard, avoir confiance en moi-même,etre moi-même, la verité, me sentir dans la lumiere, l’amour, l’amour et l’amour…

L’enfer pour moi :
Me sentir tout seule depuis longtemps, sentir comment si les choses n’avance pas, ne pas pouvoir partager mon amour, ne pas avoir tombée amoureuse a nouveau, ne pas réussir a arrêter de penser a une personne, perdre mon espoir, quand les gens me jugent sans me connaitre, la besoin de plaire a tout le monde, tout une tempête pour une chose que pourrais se résoudre bien simplement, la manque de justice, la mauvaise honnêteté, la manque de politesse, les gens qui discute sur le mal ou la vie des autres personnes, les gens qui ayant comme sujet principal la crise et la grippe, voir au Brésil les petits en demandant d’argent dans la rue, hésiter dans l’insécurité si les gens qui j’aime très forte m’aiment aussi, ne pas réussir a arrêter de fumer…

Mon amour, mon respect, et ma gratitude…

Ca

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Kathy September 14, 2009 at 1:00 am

Yes, I believe your are right . Being involved in someone’s ego manipulations and self-righteous indignation is hell.

Heaven where peace, beauty and harmony reign.

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Camille Childs September 13, 2009 at 11:53 pm

Heaven for me in my daily life is time alone to contemplate and daydream. Heaven is discovering something new about myself and members of my family.Hell for me on a daily basis is economic uncertainty, interactions with transparent and insincere people. Overall,Heaven and Hell is living in California!

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kHULOD NIJEM September 13, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Heaven is to mantain self respect and satisfaction. To be your self inspite of the obstacles , limitations, and the bad luck you might face every second. To fight for your believes and to be able to help people in need.
Hell is to loose your true love and to spend your life looking for it. Hell is to hurt people and cause damage to other’s dreams and feelings. To loose hope of making real change in your and others life. To be hopeless regarding the unjustice and inhuminity that causes pain on daily basics.

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aditya September 14, 2009 at 9:47 am

U said it buddy !

u r right, spekaing for myself, i don’t know whether what i am saying is truth, it appears to me to be so, just as what appears to be truth to you or to khulod are said by them.

and there are certain things which we choose to have faith in, even when contrary ‘evidence’ is produced.

u were hard hitting, and a good reality check ! thank U ! but give faith a chance, for if faith is a failure then life is meaningless anyway.

aditya

K G Nielsen September 13, 2009 at 11:46 pm

Heaven: Connected through my senses – be it the smell of freshly baked bread and the taste of butter melting on the bread and in my mouth; feeling the warmth of the sun, or a lover, on my skin; being transported to another place through art, such as a book, film, painting…..and letting one self go in laughter, tears, dance, song; seeing something being created by ones own hands but not of ones own mind or intention – enjoying solutions just springing forth.

Hell: Disconnected – outcast, untouched; chaos of items, space and thoughts unable to grab hold of anything clearly and easily; chronic….anything – not changing in a universe where clearly all changes; pain in love breaking – be it pain in a loved one you can not ease or one’s own love relationships through loss of trust or loss of life; not being able to create a satisfactory solution, letting ego and control get in the way of magical creation.

Heaven…….love….well I couldn’t end on that hellish lot, could I?

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shirley adams September 13, 2009 at 11:39 pm

Heaven:
-life
-love
-the sound of laughter
-flowers
-smile
-the freshness of my grandchildren
-licking an ice cream cone
-creating my art
-and yes, chocolate

Hell:
-hate
-pain
-missing someone/something
-feeling unaccomplishment
-loneliness
-wilted flowers
-and yes, chocolate

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rosa de los vientos September 13, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Maria September 13, 2009 at 10:29 pm

I´m gonna write some lines in spanish cause my english isn´t that good

Heaven:
-go to the beach.
-coock for my brother and my mom.
-go to the gym at nights.
-bellydancing on saturdays.
-go to college and having a normal (clases, examenes, disfrutar con mis compañeros)
-go to to de movies when is possible.
-enjoy some time everyday whit my puppies.
-talk and hang out whith my true friend.

Hell:
-wondering if i`m not studying what i should.
-thinking about my ex boyfriend and missing him every single day, even that i know he´s not the one for me.
-not eating what i´d like in the afternoons (cake, chocolate).
-thinking that my family doesn´t love as i love them :(
-and it might sounds silly but i feel i can´t comunicate whit God.

sorry for my english

kisses

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paula September 13, 2009 at 11:50 pm

wondering if im not studying what i should… i agree with that as hell too( even when i forgot to mention it in my list) but i wonder how many people feel or have felt that way. Besos Maria.

Gaby September 14, 2009 at 7:01 am

I never wondered if what I was studying was what I should.
I knew what I wanted to be at the age of 15. I took the Course I wanted and went through it with no doubts.
I graduated with good grades, but there was no jobs for me.
That used to be a problem for me. I felt angry, all my efforts were in vain. I had a job I hated, as a secretary, I almost destroyed my life and family because of that. Years of therapy had done nothing for me. I felt miserable.

Then, I tried to commit suicide. (Thank God!)

I was put in the hospital by my family, and it felt like a prison. It was a prison, because we were not allowed to have anything that we might use to kill ourself again, not even shampoo and shower gel!
Anyway…
There I found someone who told me to trust in God.
Another patient, whose faith in God was so big, dispite her poor health and financial problems!

I am 33, mother of 2 wonderfull kids, currently working in another completely different field, and yet I am VERY HAPPY with my current job.

I have learned to not think about the “ifs”.
They are not real, are they? They are the reflexion of your fears, and your need for pain. (Yes, we all need pain like a drug addict, didn’t you know that? We choose to feel pain! Good news is: we can choose to feel other way too!)

Just have FAITH that God will provide everything that you need, at the right time, and it doesn’t matter how, when or what. Just believe in it.

Life is simple.
Learn to appreciate the things that you have and believe that God will provide for you always!
We complicate Life, with our fears and useless longings for things that are not real, like the future or the past.

Hell is our own creation.
Heaven is created by God, and available right now to everybody.

Gaby September 14, 2009 at 9:12 am

PS. I first read Paulo Coelho when I was 20 something. I thought I understood the message back then. But it is only NOW that I can really understand “Quando queremos muito uma coisa, o Universo inteiro conspira a nosso favor” and “As palavras são poderosas, por isso é preciso pensar bem antes de dizer as coisas”. It is not an exact quote, maybe, because I read “O Alquimista” and “Diário de um Mago” 10 years ago. But you all know what I’m talking about, right?

Michael Jordan September 13, 2009 at 10:24 pm

Heaven is the days that I can see, hear and taste like a child delighting in the minute and gazing with awe at creation.

Hell are the days that I can’t.

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shaha September 13, 2009 at 10:15 pm

our heart is the place that always heaven and hell are belonging to , when my hert is happy its my heaven and when my heart is sad its my hell , maybe the oposit is the right one..

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shaha September 13, 2009 at 10:10 pm

heaven and hell are allways belonging to heart , when my heart is hapy its my heaven , and the oposit is right..

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Bhavesh September 13, 2009 at 10:45 pm

hell: not being happy
heaven: being happy

both a state of mind?

Alexandra September 13, 2009 at 9:52 pm

Wow, what a place to cry now.Because we talk about hell, here there is mine. I just hate when I discover I am an sort of an idiot, maybe the most naive person on that earth, dont know why I never learn to read what people really think. I think as so many other times, I took a lie for truth. Why seemed so true, and why I dont discover soon that people lie to me? I believe so much, and than I feel the biggest fool .Ok. Sorry
The interesting part is that now I feel very ashame, as if I am the guilty, not the big liars. I am not a child anymore, than, why I keep believe all the “actors”???
I feel I want hide away from the world, because the shame. What to do?
Love
Alexandra
nickmame ” the Naive”

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Alexandra September 14, 2009 at 9:15 am

I will add part of Heaven, I noticed I have mostly happy moments in fields that requires knowledge. When I am praised , and I am among the very first in top, in exams or else, and is happening , than I feel very well. I wish I had same approach in my relations with my dears.

THELMA September 14, 2009 at 9:18 am

Dear Alexandra, do not feel ‘naive’ or fool.. Most honest people seem to be like that! We let other’s fool and lie to us.. We are .. optimistic thinking that for once somebody will be .. transparent .
I can ‘see’ the thoughts of people and I assure you things are not easier! I am just … prepared and ‘know’ the truth, but this does not protect me from … disappointment! People think of their EGO and .. flatter themselves that they are .. Light inside! If only the could .. see how Shadowy they are..
I have learnt my .. lesson: I sit back and .. see their ‘secret thoughts’ and ‘intentions’ becoming … actions! Time is … in our favour! They are unveiled and they seem so .. small and not worth of our .. tears not even our merest thought!
Let them .. to hide, the shame is all .. THEIRS! Do not feed their .. Egoism. Just fly away and .. enjoy the ‘journey’.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Ray September 13, 2009 at 9:40 pm

Materializing my dream is heaven (and Paolo has been the Inspiration). I’m more ready to confront things that used to feel hell some time ago. Still, my hell is when I feel hopeless what ever the reason, and when I don’t know who to seek for help.

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Robin L. Bernstein September 13, 2009 at 9:28 pm

Hell: Being engulfed in ego machinations

Heaven: Being able to harvest the apotheosis of the smallest details in any given moment.

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Al Val September 13, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Santosh Kalwar September 13, 2009 at 8:47 pm

Dear Paulo and all,

Wow, Wow and Wow….
Isn’t it amazing that there are 1000 + Comments about “Heaven and Hell”
This is amazing….
This is how the world will be moving in next decade or so…The idea is simple,

“Get People to tell there story”

Every body has something to say,
Every body has life experiences,
Grief and Pain,
Sorrows and Happiness
A moment of fun and laughter,

Really nice way to show that, “Someone is listening”

Now, after reading some of your thoughts-
I am given full chance to put my own thoughts on very big issue -
“Heaven and Hell”

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Satisfaction
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Where is the Heaven asked Paulo?
Poor boy replied, I don’t know.
Where is then Hell asked Mother?
Poor boy replied, I don’t know.
Where is the Heaven and Hell asked Wife?
Poor boy replied, I don’t know.
Many of the times, many of his friends asked-
Where is the heaven or hell?
Poor boy repeatedly said, I don’t know.

After twenty seven years,

Poor boy was speaking to himself,

Whatever I am doing, Whatever I am creating
Is this making any impact on anyone?
Is this harming any one?
Maybe, It hasn’t
Good, said Poor boy
How am I going to find Heaven or Hell?
Should I be first dead?
Or, Should I wait till I experience Near Death,
Should I fall in love?
Or, Should I tear my heart apart?
Should I go pilgrimage and find out from Gods?
Or, Should I listen none?
Where are you Heaven?
He looks up in the sky and repeatedly asks,
Where are you Heaven?
Then, again,
Where are you Hell?
No answer, No answer
He shouts and asks again
No answer
He shouts more and more
No answer
Then somebody from Neighbourhood
Says, “Stop shouting and let us sleep”

He says, “Sorry”;
Goes back in his room
Where he lives,
Find nothing but silence in the question he wants to fix,
He looks at pictures,
He listens radio,
He laughs and finally he knows the answer, indeed
He laughs and says, Yes there is Heaven
Yes, there is hell

The question is not where?
The question is where not?

Our idea deep rooted in our heart
Needs to get updated first

Self Love, Self motivation, Self Sacrifice,
Self Help, Self romance, Self learning,
Self Satisfaction….

Self Satisfaction…He stops singing…

This is where it ends…

We have our life, a golden two hands, two legs,
a beautiful gazing eyes, a beautiful body

bread and butter to make it more tasty,

work to live and sustain our life which is little thirsty,
But it does not stops there since we want always something
A good journey, a nice ride, a beautiful husband or wife,
a father, a mother, a friend or group of friends,
we go far beyond to search and search for everything

But we come to an end which begs us and says, “Satisfaction”

What?

Satisfaction….

What are you talking about?

Yes, Satisfaction….

Come on, Paulo will kill you, He asked to talk about “Heaven and Hell”, Not Satisfaction, idiot !

No, No, I am not worried- Satisfaction…

Stop it..

Never,

Satisfaction

Yes, it is satisfaction

What satisfaction?

Self, Others, My, Yours, Everyone’s, Gods and No Gods, Nature, Science, Religion ….

Satisfaction….

Yes, Satisfaction…

Where is then Heaven or Hell?

Before you go back to sleep exhausted or non-exhausted, ask

“Were you satisfied today?”

Yes, Good

No, Very Good

Why?

Come on, You must know the answer…

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God bless you all !

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Heart September 13, 2009 at 9:08 pm

‘Only a life lived for others is worth living’
Albert Einstein

Sarava (God Bless in Brazilian)
Heart

Carolena Sabah September 14, 2009 at 7:53 am

Interesting writing Santosh, I enjoyed it!
Hope you are well!
Love and kisses.

aditya September 14, 2009 at 9:35 am

Hi santosh 1 not bad at all. but that u must know the answer is a little problematic, what if some poor chap does not know.

speaking of satisfaction – it’s also like either it is or it is not always, there is a satisfaction which is same irrespective of time and mood etc etc. other than than where is satisfaction, just momentary.

few days back i was wondering and getting agitated over my seemigly endless ‘responsibilities’, guarding my private time is so difficult, responsibilities never seem to end, but then it dawned upon me that they are not meant to end, and that was such a relief.

love
aditya

Ilva Asote September 14, 2009 at 10:50 am

What is SATISFACTION?
SANTOSH, are you playing here? You now what I’m talking about… :)
Yesss!!! :D I know the answer… you, nasty youth! :D

Lethal_Cure September 13, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Hell is the “no heaven exists for me” attitude- all the negative thoughts in us about our “incapability” of doing certain things , achieving our goals, following our dreams.
Hell is the loss of ability to see the beauty of the surrounding world through shield of negativity and worries you create around yourself.

In a way the biggest hell should be not being able ot be with the one you love, right? But this is optional too. I am not hurt by not being able to be with the one i love the most because i primised (to myself more than to him) that i will not be hurt by him or in any way connected to him, so I am not.

So, in short, (if there is such way..) Hell is “optional”, even thought we do not feel that, we choose our personal hell- not being brave enough to follow our dreams, not trusting ourselves and our abilities thus condemning ourselves to stagnation.

Heaven.. Heaven is the opposite choice, i guess. the Choice to move forward to creating life the way you want it and making dreams come true- in abstract way of telling about it.
In more subjective way- heaven is in every single little moment when you feel you are blessed/touched by something tat makes your soul sing. For everyone those moments are different too though..
For me it would be.. Reading something as nice as “The Cloud And The Sand Dune” or listening to Oxymoron No.2 by Akado..
(Let both the story and the song represent all of I enjoy doing/seeing/listening/reading.. And both combined (cause knowing them both you see that they are very different) be the reflection of my inner “chaotic harmony”, as i call it – everyone has it. has to have it.) Cause if not, i guess it is another form of hell- not being able to be , let’s call it flexible in life.

Eh.. well, don’t know if anyone finds this worth thinking of, but this is my point of view, more or less. Gosh, this is, by far, the longest entry i have ever made to any of the forums.. xD

Thank you, Paulo.

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Rosemary September 13, 2009 at 8:30 pm

O Meu céu é: o respeito e o carinho pelas pessoas,pelos animais,é ver e sentir o sorriso que vem de dentro do coração,é me importar se meu próximo não está bem e procurar ajudá-lo,é ter um amigo(a) a quem possa sentar e “soltar os bichos” sem receio do que ele(a) vai pensar,é poder abraçar as pessoas que Amo mesmo quando elas não esperam por isso,é poder ver minha família de perto e estar presente na hora em que eles precisarem ou não,é o direito à “liberdade”,é o poder ir e vir sem medo…
No meu céu não há diferenças,julgamentos,preconceitos e nem se quer dor…este cèu meu é de todos nós,desde que saibamos cuidá-lo com Amor.

O inferno para mim são as dores da alma(aquelas difíceis de curar),são as mágoas que nos chagam o coração e que são feitas por pessoas cruéis que não se respeitam e que não sabem o que é “Amar à todos sem distinção”.

P.s: E tudo isso para mim não é utopia.

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Hum September 13, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Mucha…fue a verlo

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keziah September 13, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Hi Paulo and hello everyone :)

Just want to share too:
My heaven:
*waking up spontaneously with a smile on my face..
*and smiling all throughout.. genuine happiness
*doing something i’ve always wanted to do (one of which is to post a reply here :D)
*having someone to love and love you as well
*when you are so tired and you get to lie flat on the soft bed, arms stretched wide..
*lying on the table,looking up at the ceiling, amazed by the beauty of life
*sitting on the grass eating and talking
*good music
*good food.. desserts ^,^
*having a fast internet connection
*watching a movie that made me laugh and cry and fall in love with it
*having 10-15 minute walks, with the soft breeze blowing on your face
*big laughs with family and friends.. (that tears well up on your face because you can’t stop yourself from laughing..:D)
*fulfillment of dreams and wishes
*making someone proud of me..
*serenity.. having peace of mind
*learning, discovering, understanding
*knowing that we’re NEVER alone. God is ALWAYS with us.

My hell:
*knowing that i’ve spent a day doing nothing useful
*seeing old people still working their ass off (drivers, construction workers)
*cigarette smoke
*hearing people lie and make up stories
*negative news

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linda j September 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm

addition to my previous post:

hell is a place i sometimes create.
heaven is a place i choose to live.

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