The road to Hell..

"Say, "O Thou, who makes easy what is hard, Give good to us in our present abode, and give good to us in our future home!
Make the way as agreeable as a garden."
The faithful will say, " O Angel, is it not the case that hell is a common road that believer and disbeliever alike have to pass by? We saw no smoke or fire in this road which we have traveled.
Instead, here is Paradise, and a Court of safety: where, then, was that vile place of passage?"
Then the angel will say, " The garden of greenery that you saw in a certain spot as you passed--
That was Hell, and the terrible place of chastisement. but for you it became gardens and pleasures and trees"....
Insomuch as once the fire of anger in you has turned to forbearance, and the darkness of ignorance has turned to knowledge;
Insomuch as the fire of greed in you has turned to unselfishness, and the envy, which was like thorns, has turned to roses;
Insomuch as you extinguished all those fires on your own, for God's sake, and made the fiery mind like an orchard...where the nightingales of remembrance, and the praises of God were singing sweetly in the garden by the river-side;
Inasmuch as you have answered the call of God, and have brought water into the burning hell of your own mind,
Our Hell, in regard to you, has become greenery and roses, and plenty  and riches."

Rumi (Vol. 2, from 2551-2568)

Commentary: The road we find ourselves traveling on, has something to do with our own willingness to turn away from the fires that burn us and hurt others? Who knew??