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There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.
– Pema Chdrn

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  1. Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever. – Pema Chdrn
  2. Abandon hope. – Pema Chdrn
  3. Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha. – Pema Chdrn
  4. Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters – Pema Chdrn
  5. Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect. – Pema Chdrn
  6. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation. – Pema Chdrn
  7. IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal-”quite the opposite. – Pema Chdrn
  8. In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts. – Pema Chdrn
  9. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. – Pema Chdrn
  10. It’s helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. – Pema Chdrn
  11. Sitting meditation begins with good posture. – Pema Chdrn
  12. Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies. – Pema Chdrn
  13. The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go – qualities that are innate within us. – Pema Chdrn
  14. One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. – Pema Chdrn
  15. While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. – Pema Chdrn
  16. The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness. – Pema Chdrn
  17. The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort. – Pema Chdrn
  18. there’s more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief. – Pema Chdrn
  19. Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed. – Pema Chdrn
  20. If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. – Pema Chdrn
  21. PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. – Pema Chdrn
  22. The way we relate with people is the same way we relate with God – Sunday Adelaja
  23. God can only relate effectively with you when you relate with people – Sunday Adelaja
  24. When we relate with people, we indirectly relate with God – Sunday Adelaja
  25. Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others. – Billy Graham
  26. Many are concerned with going to heaven or hell, But fail to realize that you can be living in heaven or hell right here on Earth. – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
  27. You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours. – Shannon L Alder
  28. A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  29. The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. – John Milton
  30. The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. – Ludwig von Mises
  31. Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. – John Bunyan
  32. Is heaven a place in the sky?Heaven is what we wear in our heart and in our mind. ( -œIs heaven a place in the sky?- ) – Erik Pevernagie
  33. If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? – Michael Bassey Johnson
  34. Heaven and Hell are within you. Choose wisely or to hell with you! – Tapan Ghosh
  35. Could one that’s damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe’d feel within himself all Hell and Hell’s despair. – Angelus Silesius
  36. No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come. – Billy Graham
  37. People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  38. To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. – Ray Bradbury
  39. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. – Christopher Marlowe
  40. Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy and enjoy life-¦! – James A Murphy

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