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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i think for the true lover, heaven and hell eventually become one!!! theres utter joy and great sadness in pure and real love, i know cause i felt it for 10 years. we were together for that long truly loving each other unconditionally and at times it was too much to bear. He passed away last April but will live on inside and around me forever. Si i guess the line between heaven and hell is like a spiders web for me, very fine but very strong!
My dear dear dear Paulo,
Heaven for me is my son and my husband. The LOVE that is unconditional. When I have episodes of “craziness” he holds me down and loves me just as I am, and I thank God for him because no one ever did that for me, no one ever loved me this way. I am working on my emotional wounds that go way back to my childhood, but it is heaven to have someone to support you.
Hell for me is people without compassion and any kind of understanding in this world.
Thank you for your blog which is part of my heaven too;)
With love,
Barbara
el cielo: cada despertar con mis hijos, con salud ,con familia, con techo , pan, trabajo y respeto.EL infierno: soportar a gente mal educada, gritos, falta de respeto, poca consideraciòn, ver vagos perder el dia enlas esquinas sin mirar lo hermosa que es la vida, sin ilusiones y consumir droga para cerrar sus pensamientos. Ojalà y algun dìa se pueda cambiar la idiosincracia de la gente y aprendan a construir no destruir,, este mundo serìa, el mismo paraìso prometido por Dios.
Hell for me is when i lost the love of myself in the process of loving other person too much that i forget who i am..It took me a year to bring back all the love that i have with myself but now my heart is at peace..so i could say that i am in heaven..having love for myself, showing it to my family and working to reach my dreams..
Heaven is unconditional love and hell is unconditional hatred. Melanie Stone
My heaven….being happy and content…
my hell…where i am right now. Pregnant and alone…sad.
Hi Yvonne
I DO know how you feel and you are NOT alone, I am with you. I love you.
Hi Yvonne, you are not alone, you are carrying a baby, that’s not alone, is it? you ve got eachother ;o)
Love to you both
hi yvonne,u r never alone…we are never alone..soon u will be a mother,ur baby will have eyes only for you..ur baby will love you no matter what,no conditions..your baby will soon replace the word alone to joy,and warmth,and lots of unconditional love…i hope my words bring u at least the warmth i am feeling while writing you this small but sincere words…salam
Imagining hell is diffirent because they are fiction, but if you really experienced, is not so easy to discribed. It is not that I’m scared or no one able to listen, the hell for me that you are not able to rest your mind,and sometimes not even falling sleep, i’t feels like a kristal clear and you can not even make stop, keep on and on running…it happened to me, for longer period.And heaven for me, that i survived, I know as a woman their are a lots of reason of course,hormons changing,after giving birth,not even talking my youth,my childhood and after that, you think it’s all over, but you have to confronted all, and make the choices either you choose to live or death, and learned to separate them.Sinds last year I got treatment for PTSD, but before that I got already treatment and medicine, after the first birth of my child. After few years I desided to quiet my medicine because I want a second child…so I have two kids. My depression becomes worst, that my husband and my theraphy are willing me to put in the mental hospital, but keep fighting because of my kids, who’s going to take care them…but I did I survived until now…I do believed God is there for me, and I call that heaven because I survived the hell on earth.I’m trying to live my life as long as possible and I’m hoping to see my children grown up…and having their own life whatever they might be, and they should also able to learn what is the meaning of life…I think, this is more than enough to proved my self I’m human being too…Thank you for helping me, to improved my knowledge and wisdom that I learned ….Kind Regards Lyda
Other hell on earth, that you are not able to straight thinking anymore, you want to scream loudly but you could not say a word’s anymore…You closed your self somewhere into dark that no one can not see you and it feels like you are invisible. When I was 20 yrs. old, I had nightmare, that I could really literally heard the divel laughing on me..I try to scream but I couldn’t, and I know I was screaming a lot and it was during the day around 12: oo in the afternoon It happened when I was renting small room in Manila, finally I moved my right hand and smashed the wall on my bed very hard, and I woke up.I could heard the owner of the house talking to her kids, but I asked them if they heard me , they said nothing…oh I said forget it,I must be imaginning or a dream…just not avoid asking me what it is ..It was dark inside and hearing those voice I will never forget that…it happened shortly I’m living my country…So you can see the divel really existed and what conclusion because what really happened when I was a child, who killed the two women, so I could also proved on my dream telling me what happened to me,but it was never occured me or I can say I’m suffering of PTSD…I was never got a treatment when I was young because my parents they never had that ability to undertand and not knowing it, so I can not blame them either…I guess I can say that I am still very lucky human being to survived those terrible tragedy in life…Thank you again to wrote my precious gift and maybe a bit of curse…XXXX
“I sent my soul into the invisible, some letter of the after life to spell, and by and by my soul returned to me, and answered “I myself am Heaven and Hell”
Omar Khayyam
Hell is when I don’t dare asking others.
Hell is when I don’t dare showing the dark part of myself to others.
Hell is when I don’t dare sharing my fears about the future with others.
Hell is when I accuse others of all my troubles.
Hell is when I see the bad in others.
Heaven is the other way around…
Ahh what wonderful words to read as I lay in bed listening to the rain. Paulo you have resurfaced hope and faith in those who have forgotten and reminded those who are patiently on their path.
Denis G again, wonderful, soulful words I needed to read.
Thank you lovely
xxx
heaven is when u hv peace ov mind, n hell when u rnt happy n satisfied….
I belive its all in seconds wen i change from hell to heaven or viseversa tho its all written i can atleast make it out wr am i in hell or heaven..n make a dicission to sustain or detain from the scene
heaven is loving and hell is loving….the pleasure and pain from the same emotion.
Heaven to me is freedom and choice. It’s being alone without feeling lonely. It’s being thankful for what you have and embracing possibilities. Hell is insecurity, jealousy, envy and pride
Heaven is knowing my heart is right with God.
Hell is knowing only God knows my heart. ♥
Dear Mr. Paulo,
I was deeply impressed with the story of Ahab and St. Savin in your book The Devil and Miss Prym. What is heaven and hell? Shall we say our desires are hell and our ability to contro them through sheer will power is heaven? Well i felt that’s what the story was trying to tell me..St. Savin is just the same as Ahab except the fact that he is able to control his desires…when Ahab realises this he also realises he can do the same…it is a matter of sheer choice..i believe heaven and hell certainly does exist..in my mind..cos i cannot believe in a mythical or religious heaven and hell which i haven’t seen…my desires are hell and if i can transcend them like St. Savin did i can feel heaven too though the struggle will be an immense one….it is a lovely story sir..it changed my entire perception of life…thank you so much for making me think!
I LIKE THAT TOPIC TODAY–SO REALISTICAL AND IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFE,BUT SOME PEOPLE DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE,,IT IS PITTY,,,WE SHOULD BELIEVE IN God,and just in that way,you ll fel heaven and hell.,.,,,,when you wrong and mad,you do sin,you lost and unconfiedanse–is hell,and he followes you,cause you do ,behave or think in a wrong way,so ytou ll turn,you feel God,controll yourself—is heaven—self control,and right way,,,
well.,ivel is waiting whwn you mistake,and he attects you,,,,
after we ll dey i am doulbing of hell—just suspect heaven.
Dear Mr. Paulo,
I have to admit that this is a hard question, since I believe that God has created this world between Hell and Heaven, that’s why our lives might be so complicated and undefined as a result of the homologous contradictions that might frame our existence at some point.
Nothing is completely ‘Good’ and nothing is completely ‘Evil’ in this world, and this makes it even harder to answer your interesting question!
But if the ‘Good’ brings with it satisfaction and happiness, then this is the Heaven in the objective and subjective meaning for humanity. Therefore Hell is all that is ‘Evil’; disappointments and the opposite of Heaven’s reflection on us.
Both terms ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Disappointments’ may come under many categories, but this is the general form of the answer that might suit the story of every human being as I believe.
Thank you,
Sara.
Heaven for me is being able to say I fully lived the experience(s)I was presented, and got the point of as many of them as possible. Hell would be not having lived them because of fear, doubt, or anything within my control, and missing the opportunities altogether.
“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
heaven: To be alive and wake up everymorning
hell: the waste time
Sin.. Good and Bad Deed… God & Heaven
People are always confused the word SIN. What is Sin? Sin in our eyes or Sin in God’s Eyes…! These should be two separated issues! Damnations in the eyes of human and Damnation in the eyes of God..! Damnation in both in the eyes of son of man and damnation in the eyes of God…
You could bear witness through generations the evils that is beyond the history of man that is damnations in the Eyes of God and mankind even killing the Prophets of GOD. We speak of an individually and their power even today. In exception to nature..
Could we avoid that… when man becomes evil…with power in their hands with only a lift of one finger… millions died… with bloodshed and greed. No matter who they are either they are Muslims, Christians or Jews or any other mankind… In the name of justices… Are they forgivable…? In the Eyes of GOD?
That is what you called ‘Sin’… and The Major ‘Sin’ in the eyes of God are to deny the existence of the One True God. This have been mention in all the scriptures given to all the Prophets in the Holy Torah, Holy Testaments and the Holy Koran.
We are given two choices dear.. either to follow the teachings of the Darkness or the Lights…the teachings of the Dark world or the teachings of the Holy Light. Here we could see the differences of the two spiritual beings…! One to destroy mankind and the other to saved mankind… The work of the Satan and its kind and the work of the Holy Angels and the Holy Prophets. The Sin of Adam of Eve are only created by the Devil but GOD has knowth better.. In the eyes of God, they have already been forgiven… are now in Heaven awaiting us all to return in their arms. In Heaven there are no white…no black..yellow or brown… We shall be as one race and one kind the girls would be like Eve and the boys would be like Adam. There would no handicapped… all beautiful and young.. No sadness and no pain all be praises in the Eyes of God. We all would be back to where we belong…Our Home, Heaven.
Hell are not for us…but created for the Devils and all his kind. So be at peace…as long you believe in One True God…and always be good to others especially your parents….and always asked for good guidance in your life… He the Lord God would send the Guardian Angels to be with you…
[71] Say : “ O People of the Book ! Ye have no ground
To stand upon unless Ye stand fast by the Law, The Gospel, all the revelation That has come to you from Your Lord.” It is the revelation That cometh to thee from Thy Lord, that increaseth in most Of them their obstinate Rebellion and blasphemy. But sorrow thou not Over (these) people without Faith.
[72] Those who believe (in the Quran), Those who follow the Jewish scriptures (Torah), And the Sabians and the Christians, Any who believe in God And the Last Day, And work righteousness, On them shall be no fear, Nor shall they grieve.
Sura Maida (or The Table Spread). Verse 71-72
HolyQuran
My ideal Heaven on earth: A day where I learn one new thing about myself. A day where I teach my son one new thing to better his life and future. A day filled with hugs and kisses. A day filled with all that I need to get physically through the day. A day with a little rain and some sunshine. A day filled with loud laughter and playing music. A day surrounded by the people I love.
Hell: A day where I do not feel loved. A day that is slient. A day without any surprises. A day without a phonecall from my mother. Anyday that I cannot share with my son. A day not shared with my husband. A day without a good book in my pocket.
For everyday, I want to know the feeling of enough sarrow to know what true happiness is, without knowing the difference, by lack of inexperience,everyday will feel the same…. true hell.
I am not religious and I do not have a religion, but I do believe in Heaven and Hell. I’m still quite young, I did not even hit my 20s yet, so my mentality will probably morph and shape in another way as I grow, but as of now, I believe that Heaven and Hell is contained in yourself. If one lives a peaceful, harmonious, and good life, one will feel their soul at ease. Whereas, if one lives a life of constant sin and harm, his soul will cry and deteriorate. This is what I believe in as of now. Hopefully, I can become more enlightened and awakened within time. Perhaps my thoughts will change when I become wiser.
Heaven is to feel that Allah is accepting your good deeds. As a muslim, we believe that the indication of this is mainly sensed in this world by the love and acceptance from others. This would be also reflected by a good reputation.
Hell is to feel evil in myself. To feel that I am hurting others. To feel that life is passing without being in heaven!
Heaven: being able to live your life everyday,though there are many sufferings and heartaches. It’s just about looking things in brighter prespective. In that way, simple things can make you happy. If happiness means heaven, so heaven can be easily found by everyone.
Hell: Letting yourself being controlled by others. Being someone you’re not. Letting opportunities pass you, just because your afraid. Being hold back by the past. And havent let yourself to be happy, beacause you thought you dont deserved to be.
Hell is a “damnation without relief”. The weight of the world suppressing us downwards.
Heaven is a “relief from damnation”. A sense of lightness that enables us to keep our heads to the sky.
Heaven to me means to be one with the man of my dreams.
The hell is everything bad that people do in this world.
Aveces no hay Cielo sin pasar por el infierno..pero cuando llegas al cielo,ya no te acordas del infierno..
El cielo es es mirar al Sol,sentirte pleno,los instantes magicos..sentir el halo de la Virgen que te guia..la felicidad en tu corazon..el infierno,lo construye uno mismo,con sus miedos,temores..es la noche oscura..pero siempre hay una luz,siempre,hay un angel que nos muestra el camino,siempre , si uno quiere se llega al cielo…
Mucha luz y amor para todos..y un pedacito de mi cielo..que siempre tiene un sol brillante y un arco iris para colgar sueños..
heaven is where you’re heart is.
hell is where you dont wanna be at.
the exact place where your heart is depends on the values and beliefs one has accumulated in its entire existence. on what he/she considers as good or bad. it is subjective and variable but nevertheless, it gives the same feelings. feelings of satisfaction or the opposite.
Everything in the world – in the known universe is made up of a spherical content. Lets start of as small as we can. Atoms and molecules are spherical and the electrons and neutrons inside are spherical. These smaller forms makeup larger formulas that are usually bended into somewhat spherical objects. Another view is to say that everything might not appear round or circular but its formula is. The much larger picture is that all the planets are spherical and the universe is scientifically spherical. Now imagine this universe inside an electron, inside an atom, inside a blood-cell, inside of you. Then further imagine yourself on this planet, in this universe that is inside a neutron within a molecule inside a blood-cell and so on….
While you might say this can not be possible, I say if it isn’t possible how come I could have thought of it….?
The impossible is unthinkable…
an abstract notion
here to connect me to the ocean cause I’m water
and carbon
and not much else, I felt compunction
conjunction junction
what’s your function?
I will be hookin’ ups verbs and nouns and phrases and clauses as to the causes of misery
quizzically I look to my own book
hooked
on trying to fathom the solar system’s an atom in a larger molecule
called a galaxy
cool
I know you all know the song.. We all want to have hope.. and if that is all that is left.. god help us
If God is even a spark of ones imagination than it is true
В повседневной жизни? Ад это наверно тот кошмар, который ты в состоянии пережить…как черная полоса жизни, а Рай это когда наступают минуты счастья и ты понимаешь, что не зря все это делал…
In everyday life? Hell is probably the nightmare that you are able to survive … as a black bar of life, and Heaven is when there comes a moment of happiness and you realize that not in vain did all this …
I think that haven and hell is the same place.It is just the way you see it. it is status of your mind. There can be two people in same place at same time they could be brothers and still one could think that he is in haven and the other one could think that he is in hell. I believe it is up to Us where we chose to be. there for we are given opportunity to live live and decide if is going to be hell or haven.
Heaven is the Prince of Light, Hell the Prince of Darkness.
Heaven is any connection you have to Divine, The One who created all, the Universe.
Hell is of your own making. Hell is losing that connection
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heaven is the peace one feels when while praying you feel God is looking at you..it’s the kindness one shows without expecting anything in return…it’s the love one feels when there’s a feeling of unwantedness inside..it’s the protective hand of mother…the feeling of success…the triumph over the failure..the courage to stand when trials and tribulations broke every bone inside…in fact it’s the light within we feel when our conscience talks to us…sometimes it’s nature..sometimes it’s the person inside me…n sometimes just a thing which validates my existence that someday i’ll be there..
Hell…is the guilt we feel when we do things that are not justified or not good morally…the feeling that you truly are alone because God is sad because of u…for me hell is the when i look up in the mirror n fail to recognize me because of my actions, my deeds…to look in my on eyes as if God is looking at me…It’s something i feel when in my prayers i feel alone n God seems to be hurt because of what i did….
Hell is the trail the heavenly train of my life sustains itself on
Cuando siento el infierno, todo lo que soy se hace añicos, y cada partecita sale disparada en sentidos diversos. Entonces, cada fragmento intenta comunicarse con los otros. Pero no lo consigue. Cada trocito lleva en sí un infierno propio, que termina por hacer pedazos, a su vez, el pedazo mismo. Quedo reducida a polvo.
Cuando siento el cielo, algo en mi interior comprende que todo en el universo se encamina hacia la perfección del amor.
hell is being lonely. being ill or watching your dearest ones ill without actually being able to help them. waiting. being far away of your love. being without love. being with hipocrits and false friends.
heaven is being loved. sharing your love. being with people you love and who love you. being able to shine in your true light. being inloved. doing what you love. travelling&knowing new cultures and people.
was thinking of the topic of heaven and hell
at first a small issue then it started to swell
this world of boys and girls women and men
who are all born with sin but also born with something within
the capability to show emotion the ability to love
the choices we make to forgive or hold a grudge
now back to the matter at hand
behind all the walls put up back to what truly matters to a man
“love” “heaven” and “hell”
in the case if I were to rise to heaven and you fell
if I was truly in love wouldn’t my heaven become hell
since heaven is meant for eternal bliss and the angels never created tissues
there would be endless floods caused by the tears from the fact that I miss you
and the issue of misery would last for an eternity
and my heaven would become hell because of the emotions inside that are burning me
so I would willingly leave the gates of the divine
to be with one I once called mine
for happiness does not exist is the one you love is in pain
so by joining you hells flames shall be put out by heavens rain
and pain that was meant to last for an eternity
would become endless bliss, and nights and days of serenity
we will live till the end of days virtuously a blessing will be passed to our children
who will tell the story of how a man and woman turned hell into heaven
Rashid Akeem
Wow, what a great, great poem. Who wrote it? Usually, if it’s written by someone other than oneself, we acknowledge the writer. Did you write it? If so, you should put your name on there as the poet! Thanks for posting it. I rather hope you are the one who write it! ~ Linda
Without hell there is no heaven. The two depend on each other’s existence.
heaven is happiness w/o regrets and hell is hatred.. revenge and lust!
heaven is happiness,hell is loneliness)))
heaven is love & hell is hate
Heaven can only be found in one´s mind us is the same with hell.
Heaven to me is being connected to the source. Being. Feeling a part of the universe.
Hell is being separated from the source- whatever it is that keeps me isolated, like drugs or alchohol for example. Hell I beleive is personal. It is isolation from creation.
Wow Myra, to me that is the perfect definition. Thank you
good one myra..like it a lot
Heaven is a feeling that comes with kindness. It is when you carry someone else’s heavy bag or help an elderly person to cross the road.
Heaven comes from simple things.It is like pink ribbons coming out of your soul.
Hell is when people who lack in kindness and are full of judgement single you out.
It is an inner dark prison of the soul.
i like that. Thought the same.
It may be simple but for me, it should be really simple, looking life with a child eyes..
thank you
to me heaven is a feeling that you get when you make some one happy without expecting something in return. Hell… well it opens its doors when you expect something from some one you love & they deceive you in some way or the other…
to me heaven is a feeling that you get when you make when u make some one happy without expecting something in return. Hell… well it opens its doors when you expect something from some you & they deceive you…
Heaven is the life, the inner fractal that blooms through us like a flower. Heaven is the freedom where birds are flying like stars of the night. Heaven is truly love, the process of change, it tastes yummy like nothing else and it’s the sacred source of everything.
Hell is fear, it’s non-existent. But people tend to worship it to make even non-existent become true. It’s like a shadow of the real thing. Fear is only existent, because love draws its outline.
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