“I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same thing anyway?" "Same - same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy on journey." I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is..." "Love, too," he said.”
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“You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.”
“If there is a heaven we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”
“The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.”