What is your idea of heaven?

I believe, or at least I hope, that heaven is a place not just for people of one faith but good people of all faiths and backgrounds.  I never felt any personal pull toward a heaven up in the clouds.  Instead, I view it as a place like this one with mountains and valleys, oceans and streams, towns and cities; a place that looks like home but in which everything is sweeter, brighter, and more real than in this life and there is no pain and no suffering of any kind.  It would be faster and more convenient to move around this world, making it easier to explore and meet new and different types of people and we would never feel hungry or thirsty or frightened or sad.

It is my belief that all religions can and will lead to this place if a person is noble and good and that any person who is genuinely seeking Truth, no matter where that seeking leads them, will find their way to this place after death.  I believe that all people who were open and honest in life, whether they were Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, or any other faith, even Atheists, will recognize the entity that is God when they see it, whatever form it may truly take; and they will find a place in that new world. 

I do not view my life, or any other, as a means to an end: an otherwise meaningless quest for this afterlife.  I don't think any amount of bowing or scraping or empty prayer will bring us any closer to this perfect existence.  I don't believe it matters what we called God, or how many hours we spent in houses of worship while we were alive.  What is more important is how we live outside of churches and temples, what kind of people we are, and where our hearts truly yearn to belong.