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Patti Smith Musician
Heaven

"My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process was especially magnified within the fevers of influenza, measles, chickenpox, and mumps. I got them all and with each I was privileged with a new level of awareness. Lying deep within myself, the symmetry of a snowflake spinning above me, intensifying through my lids, I seized a most worthy souvenir, a shard of heaven’s kaleidoscope."

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Confucius Philosopher
Heaven

"The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heaven

"There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Heaven

"I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone."

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Mencius Philosopher
Heaven

"He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven."

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Joseph Warren Physician, Patriot
Heaven

"Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . ."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Heaven

"‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Heaven

"What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'"

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Plato Philosopher
Heaven

"We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise."

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"I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given."

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