What is Paradise?

Paradise to me is a place where you can be you without fear and where there is honesty, integrity, acceptance, laughter, joy , love and peace between all there.

For me the paradise is not a place, is a mental state, imagine for a moment you can live without fears, hate, sadness... and any other negative mental states, if you learn to eliminate all of them you can live in a perfect peace it doesn't matter where you are, and this is the paradise, isn't it? Best wishes...

paradise is in the heart and mind. it is a state of being where we feel most happy and heavenly. it is not a place where we can go to. it is what we long for in life - freedom from wants and needs. when we detach ourselves from the worries and concerns of everyday living, we feel free. and wherever we will be if we fell free, that is paradise for us. so, let us make this earth a paradise from freeing ourselves from the excesses of our lives.

To me paradise is a place where everything works well together... nothing's broken. It is aslso a place that produces the kind of beauty that you specifically like. For me, that would be a waterfall surrounding my front door... and you cross a small pond and foot bridge to enter/exit. It's filled with beautiful koi. There are persons there who acknowledge and support you without a 2nd thought or fear - and we work together to win at any event. Having an expansive amount of land - and it rises up to meet you. Rolling hills, cute lil valleys, distant mounatains, and plateaus that are high enough to sit atop them and view everything around you. Complete with bright city lights and the slight murmur of the city's hustle and bustle - yet you are far enough away to ignore it at will. You can sit and look up at the stars, dream, and imagine a number of things while you lay on the lushest grass you have ever seen or felt. This paradise would be intimately connect to my mind - and what my mind sees as good, healthy, pure, godly, fruitful, abundant, abundant, and abundant!! Oh and my house, the interior and other trappings... I can't even get into it!! WHHoooo weee!! It is amazing!! maybe 15 bedrooms, an enormous library, a great decorative pool, wonderful manicured lawns that flow inside at certain points b/c the house can open a wall to allow the outside to come in. The kitchen (which I would neevr use) would be replete with a PERSONAL CHEF who cooks me anything I want - but, watching my health and diet at the same time; any time of day or night. I'd have friends and family over all the time... for days and weeks at a time; they could stay as long as they wanted... SO LONG AS THEY ARE NOT GETTING ON MY NERVES!! A sunken living room with several large flatscreen tv - uhmmm... and maybe two fireplaces in that one room alone (flanking the sides of the tv's). There would be so many nooks and crannies that you could sit and have privacy anywhere... the stairs would wind and turn and never face the front door. There's more than one staircase! And I'd of course have a movie theatre in my basement and an awesome surround sound system the could play wonderful music (classical) as well as movies. And, you'd never bother the neighbors b/c they're not close enough to even care.... let's say a mile away (mile between each home - yeah!!). I could go on and on... but you SEE - my point!! PARADISE INDEED!!

Paradise for me is a place where one experiences serenity of mind, heart, and soul. A paradise can be an island where there are only a few people with the presence of beautiful natural scenery of the sea, the trees, the birds, etc. Moreover, it could be in abstract form like in the heart of someone close to you. In addition, paradise also refers to the place one goes after one's life here on earth is done.