You have been to hell, Ketut?"He smiled. Of course he's been there. What's it like in hell?" Same like in heaven, " he said. He saw my confusion and tried to explain. "Universe is a circle, Liss."He said. "To up, to down -- all same, at end." I remembered an old Christian mystic notion: As above, so below. I asked. "Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell?" Because of how you go. Heaven, you go up, through seven happy places. Hell, you go down, through seven sad places. This is why it better for you to go up, Liss." He laughed. Same-same, " he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy in journey." I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is. " Love, too, " he said. Ketut laughed again, "Always so difficult for young people to understand this! . Elizabeth Gilbert
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So, if heaven is love, then hell is...Love, too." He laughed. "Always so difficult for young people to understand this!" I said. "But what does it mean? Why would you go to hell to have love? You'd have to have something to love, wouldn't you?" "Well, yes," he said. And then he paused.

"But to me, love is just a word." "What do you mean?" I asked. "I don't know what love is." He said. "I just know that I have no feelings towards anyone else, so I don't know what love is.

But I still get the same feeling when I get close to someone else." As Ketut spoke about his experiences in various schools where he had been beaten and forced into hard labor, the bond between us grew stronger. Ketut was a man who had been through hell and emerged with a new life and a new purpose. He had become a better person because of it.

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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