Part 7 & 8 out of 16 in the Course on Miracles…. PART 7: Our search for happiness is actually an expression of resentment and a quest for vengeance on the past. * Underneath our conscious face of innocence is the victim level, a place in us where we are enraged over what we think the world has done to us. * >The victim’s primary perception is that other people are sinful. * In this place we believe that past injustices have given us the right to resentment, restitution, and revenge. * Our attempt to rearrange the world is based on anger, resentment, grievances. * In our giving and in our suffering we constantly send the message, “I suffered because of you. Therefore, you owe me.” * We seek vengeance through subtle attempts to re-enact the past and reverse past “injustices” against us.