Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1087

1087. The above-mentioned experience thus constitutes the culmination of "happiness". And in order to reach this culmination one has to climb all the underlying steps. On these steps "happiness" will naturally be correspondingly weaker. This is also the reason why "happiness", like everything else, becomes a "matter of perspective". The higher the step from which one observes "happiness", the more perfect an overview one gets of it. This naturally holds true here just as for anything else. And this is the reason why we see that what can sometimes be "happiness" for one person can be perceived as "unhappiness" by another. For some people "happiness" means being able to take revenge upon someone, while "revenging" is actually perceived by other beings as "unhappiness". For some beings a thing can be seen only as "injustice", while other beings cannot possibly perceive the same thing in any way other than as "justice". So what then is the truth? Well, the truth is that they are all right. Can then something be both "just" and "unjust", both "happiness" and "unhappiness", both "good" and "evil" at the same time? No, it absolutely cannot, but it does not need to either in order for everyone to be right. It is not the same beings that see things as both "just" and "unjust". The beings that perceive a thing as absolutely "just" cannot at the same time perceive it as "unjust". The being that is "happy" cannot at the same time be "unhappy". If this were the case all the contrasts in its range of sensory perception would cancel one another out, and its experience of life would equal "X", which means that its experience would equal "nothing". But the beings' experience does not equal "nothing", but equals "something".