Heaven and hell are not locations but states of mind

• Hell is just a frame of mind. Christopher Marlowe
• Heaven is a state of mind, not a location. Wayne Dyer
• I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am. Arthur Rimbaud
• That penny farthing hell you call your mind. Samuel Beckett
• The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John Burroughs
• So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. Byron Katie
• The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. John Milton
• Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. Rajneesh
• Hell is not a place, it’s a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name. Susan Kay
• We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now. Pema Chodron
• I don’t think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others. Greg Graffin
• Hell doesn’t even exist … It’s all in our minds. We invented it as a warning to those who don’t live up to our standards. Kaye Saunders
• Hell is a state of mind. It is a remnant of ancient man’s fears and an anachronism from our primitive past. I disavow it; therefore, it does not exist. Kaye Saunders
• You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion. George Harrison
• Hell doesn’t exist. Paradise doesn’t exist…. they are only subjective dimensions of our minds, crystallized in ether formed by our active thoughts. In these regions our inner sufferings last and multiply. Maurizio Cavallo
• The bad news is that hell exists — within our very minds. The good news is that even the worst hell contains the seed of freedom. Hell does not last forever. Samuel Bercholz
• Hell is a state of mind — ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind — is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. S. Lewis
• Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate. You go on jumping from this to that. In the morning you may be in heaven; by evening you are in hell. This moment heaven, that moment hell. It is just an attitude, just a state of your mind, just how you are feeling. Many times, in a single life, you may visit hell, and many times you may visit heaven. In a single day also. Rajneesh
• Whether heaven or hell or a world of admixture, it is all a state of mind, a condition of consciousness- being. The kingdom of heaven is not a place, but a spaciousness in consciousness, just as hell is a severe confinement and limitation upon consciousness. There are worlds within worlds and worlds beyond, heavens and hells and spaces in between. All are an expression of consciousness-being, which is the radiant nature of consciousness, and all exist within consciousness. Tau Malachi

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Heaven and hell are states of consciousness

• Paradise is not a place; it’s a state of consciousness. Sri Chinmoy
• Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth. Sri Chinmoy
• Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness. Frederick Lenz
• Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love. Richard Bach
• Heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
• Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive. David Wolfe
• We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness that can be lost in a single moment of forgetfulness. Harold Klemp
• Heaven and hell aren’t afterlife rewards for good and bad behaviour, they are states of consciousness we inhabit here and now. Tim Freke
• A new heaven” is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and “a new earth” is its reflection in the physical realm. Eckhart Tolle
• The kingdom of heaven is not a place, but a spaciousness in consciousness, just as hell is a severe confinement and limitation upon consciousness. Tau Malachi
• The “kingdom of heaven” to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death. Goswami Kriyananda
• Whether heaven or hell or a world of admixture, it is all a state of mind, a condition of consciousness- being. The kingdom of heaven is not a place, but a spaciousness in consciousness, just as hell is a severe confinement and limitation upon consciousness. There are worlds within worlds and worlds beyond, heavens and hells and spaces in between. All are an expression of consciousness-being, which is the radiant nature of consciousness, and all exist within consciousness. Tau Malachi
• The foundation for a new earth is a new heaven – the awakened consciousness. The earth – external reality – is only its outer reflection… the new heaven , the awakened consciousness, is not a future state to be achieved. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within you at this moment, and if they are not arising at this moment, they are no more than a thought in your head and therefore not arising at all. What did Jesus tell his disciples? “Heaven is right here in the midst of you.”  Eckhart Tolle
• “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth,” writes the biblical prophet. The foundation for a new earth is a new heaven – the awakened consciousness. The earth – external reality – is only its outer reflection… the new heaven , the awakened consciousness, is not a future state to be achieved. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within you at this moment, and if they are not arising at this moment, they are no more than a thought in your head and therefore not arising at all. What did Jesus tell his disciples? “Heaven is right here in the midst of you.”  Eckhart Tolle
• Heaven exists in two forms: Firstly it exists as experiences through form, limited in time, arising from very high states of consciousness. Secondly, it arises as the timeless experience of oneness with Infinite Being that I experience every night in deep sleep (something the mind remembers nothing of yet the peaceful after-effects I can feel when I wake up) and that I will experience after the body dies and the experience field dissolves. Hell also exists, not as a place, but as experiences through form, limited in time, arising from very low states of consciousness, especially states of despair, shame, guilt and chronic fear.  Anthony Lambert
• Being human is your soul occupying this body to maneuver through this experience in an effort to expand and evolve. When your soul is expanding it feels like joy, peace and love—your true nature. The closer you get to your true nature “joy” the lighter you feel and the less contrast you will need. When you have really found “joy” you will see perfection in everyone and everything. You will remember that your life’s purpose is to serve others and when you are living in alignment with your true nature you will find yourself residing in Heaven, right where you are. Heaven is a state of being. Debbie Dixon

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Heaven and hell are psychological

• Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology. Rajneesh
• I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die. Al Franken
• There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the life of spontaneity, truth, love, beauty is to live in heaven. To live the life of hypocrisy, lies, compromises,to live according to others, is to live in hell. To live in freedom is heaven, and to live in subjection is hell. Rajneesh
• Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within you, they are psychological. The mind is heaven, the mind is hell, and the mind has the capacity to become either. But people go on thinking everything is somewhere outside. We always go on looking for everything outside because to be inwards is very difficult. We are outgoing. If somebody says there is a god, we look at the sky. Somewhere, sitting there, will be the divine person. Rajneesh

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The mind can make of the world a heaven or hell

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There are materials enough in every man’s mind to make a hell there. Henry Ward Beecher
• You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind. John Milton
• No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities. Rajneesh
• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I am my own heaven and hell! Friedrich Schiller
• You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven? Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Heaven and hell are in us

• All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Jospeh Campbell
• I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go. Neil Gaiman
• Just like hell, heaven is a place that exists within our mind. It is a place where we are happy, where we are free to love and to be who we really are. We can reach heaven while we are alive; we don’t have to wait until we die. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Hell wasn’t a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley’s opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart- stopping evil, was right inside the human mind. Terry Pratchett