To live completely, to love totally, and perhaps most of all to be free - this condition is what the idea of heaveen means to me. Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last. I also think it is important, as part and parcel of this business called life, to have some nodding acquaintance with failure. We have to understand the awful pain that comes with the denial of life, both physical death itself and the figurative death caused by rejection, the pain that comes from our isolation from love and freedom. From these human experiences, some or many of which all of us here have had, and most of which Jesus had, we can begin perhaps to grasp the reality of hell - wherever or whatever it is.
Rejection is hell, hate is hell.
Love and life are heaven. John tells us that God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God. To be loved is to live, to be alive. Every time we truly love someone we experience life. The more we love and the more we are loved, the more of life we see and feel.