The husband and wife who are happily married occupy themselves in the creation of happiness for one another. Although relationships at work or with children may not have this happy quality for the husband or wife, the marriage itself is said and felt by them to work. This is simply because the husband and wife did and do agree that it does and it will. Similarly, the unhappy couple are busy in their marriage making one another unhappy. This marriage is said to be bad or unhappy simply because this is what the partners have agreed upon. Considerable confusion among people in separation arises from the idea that negative experiences are bad and define those who have them as failures. In truth, all experiences – pleasurable and painful – are brilliant successes of individual manifestation. Individuals have compelling and heartfelt reasons to create all of their experiences, including their most painful and difficult ones. In separation, many people are deeply absorbed in the process of learning about polarity, choice and consequence. In order to learn and know these dynamics thoroughly and viscerally, people choose a wide range of positive and negative experiences.
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