Serenity's Weekly Spiritual Quote: Insight into why some people mistreat their spouse

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class A/V Seminar 8, which will be published in Volume 12 of The Living Light Dialogue.

 

“Why do some husbands treat their wives rudely, even viciously, and why do some wives do the same thing to their husbands?"

"They are insecure. They’re insecure and they lack understanding of why they’re insecure. You see, the soul is expressing itself through the limits of the human mind, which frequently, of course, is servicing judgments or past experiences. And whoever permits themselves to over-identify with their mind experiences the feelings, the thoughts, and the judgments that they’ve been unjustly treated. A child in the early, formative years, if effort is not made to guide them, they feel emotionally that they are unjustly treated for the effort has not been made to guide them, to communicate with them. And the child grows up and has this resentment in the mind that he has been mistreated. And so whenever he comes up against an experience as an adult with another person and there is any similarity and there is any connection in the consciousness that triggers that old experience in his early childhood, then they act, what you would say, rudely and not kindly to the person.

Now try to understand, those who, in our ignorance, we permit ourselves to become attached to—remember, we attach ourselves to the mirrors that best reflect the fulfillment of our denials, which we experience as needs. So a person can understand their denials from their attachments. One does not attach oneself to another unless the other reflects to them the fulfillment of their own denials, known as needs. So one finds themselves in life, in experience, dependent upon another person for they experience a fulfillment of what they have denied for themselves. That creates an attachment. And once the attachment is established, then, after a period of time, the person awakens that someone else is beginning to order their life and tell them what to do. So, you see, it works both ways. Here you have two people who have denied what they are and have found another person (each other) reflecting a fulfillment of their own denials. And, of course, two halves are never so perfect they make a whole, when a person is whole in the first place."

 

 

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Sincerely,

 

Russell Fitzgerald

Vice President Serenity Association

 

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