Spirituality for Living

Envy is a pervasive force in the modern mind, and it has always been possible in human reckoning. Many human behaviours stem from envy though the connection is often denied. It is sort of like the animal pecking order, but without the acceptance. When you envy something you always disempower yourself.  It’s a perception of [...]

Why does envy arise? Is it anger? Is it a passion of some kind?
Possessiveness? Possessiveness is something that is warped in human nature.
Anger that we can’t have it? Insecurity? Yes, we naturally desire things. This is good, proper, and instinctual. We also naturally claim possession of things. Give me a sandwich when I’m hungry, and it [...]

Envy isn’t clearly delineated. You can envy in countless ways. You can envy someone’s ideas, and not recognize it as envy. As you are busy envying their ability to have these ideas, you aren’t listening to them, nor having the realization that these ideas are being shared with you, and can now be called yours [...]

I would like to start by asking you a couple of questions.  Have you ever met someone you truly and powerfully admired? If you did, did you feel a sense of kinship with them?
Yes and no. Ah, thank you for your honesty. In what way no?
Though I could relate to their ideas, I felt inferior [...]

Envy creeps into our daily thinking, but no situation more so than intimacy. Close friendships, family, romantic relationships. Envy denies intimacy, and if you need any gauge of how much envy affects our mind, look at the divorce rate.
I think it’s worse with romantic relationships, from my personal experience. Oh, I agree. It comes from possessiveness, but [...]

We villainize our desires like lust. Let’s say I’m very sexually driven.  How does me seeking sexual gratification take anything from anyone? It may make me very attentive to my partner.  They say the two biggest things that ruin marriages are these, and in this order: sex and money.
Now I’m speaking to the ladies.  Is [...]