Heaven and Hell are not very far.
By bhanusb
@bhanusb (5709)
India
July 25, 2009 1:13pm CST
In a Bangla(Bengali) poem the poet said, "Heaven and Hell are not very far. Devils and Angels live in humans mind and body." Humans can make the world as heaven.Humans also can make the world as hell. All depends on humans activities. Do you agree ?
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@phildozer (284)
• United States
25 Jul 09
Absolutely. No one decides our actions for us, we have a conscious stream of decisions that ultimately will effect every aspect of our world. If there is hell on Earth, it is because we choose to let it persist. If there is heaven on Earth, its because we have made it so.
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@abhjth003 (27)
• India
26 Jul 09
I think this is a universal statement that every person in the world should accept.
This is said by many poets all over the world in many languages and i think all the religious text tell this.
As the statement tells it is ones thoughts that decide how he should live. If he does bad things and always do harm to others he will be very much unhappy and disturbed and he may not enjoy his life. And he may feel it as hell. Now he have created a hell in the world for himself. But if one does good and always thinks about helping others then he will be always happy and will be tension free. he enjoys life on earth and the earth will be a heaven for him
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I totally agree! Life is as we make it. I believe those who make it as heavenly as possible are much happier and more fulfilled than those whose lives are more hell-bent.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
28 Jul 09
i sure do agree. thats a very wise poet. i think we have all done angelic things and at other times have done things very devilish and wrong that we can never tell anyone. there is a line in one of the U2 songs about having spoken with the tongue of an angel and held hands with the devil. i think its a song called "Still havent found what im looking for". but in any case its like your poet says. we all have bad and good. heaven and hell
@savypat (20216)
• United States
25 Jul 09
Humans create their own world and haven't been doing very well. mother earth might just kick us all off if we can't mend our ways. The earth goes through natural cycles and has been in a human friendly one for sometime now, no surprise that it's about to change.