"Paradise is not a place, but a state of consciousness." – Sri Chimnoy

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better." – Laurie Anderson

"Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise' : thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents." – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Saying 152

"The Gods of earth and sea
Sought through Nature to find this Tree,
But their search was all in vain;
There grows one in the Human Brain." – William Blake, The Human Abstract, from Blake's Poetry and Designs, 54, Norton Critical Edition, 1979