C. S. Lewis Quotes

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

We should understand that our problems do not exist outside of ourself, but are part of our mind that experiences unpleasant feelings.

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.

Your state of mind is everything.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds.

abundance is in crucial ways a state of mind.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .