Heaven is, consequently, as much now as it is to come, only yet to be in full. The more we sink into God, the more we immerse ourselves in goodness, the more we become the beauty around us — the more we transform evil into good, the more we love, the less we hate — the more we have of the heaven that is here, the closer we are to heaven forever. Heaven is not a place. Heaven is a process of growing fully into the fullness of Being.
— Joan Chittister, In Search of Belief