Quote Motion #9

          Jealousy consists of revealing our little we think of ourselves and how much we think of
          the other person. - Anonymous

                             

 

Aside anger, jealousy is the next demon of mind which plagues and torments. It resides right in the unhealthy perception of self by one in relation to the rest of the world. Jealousy is inferiority complex 'emotionalized'. It is a perception of self lacking in the knowledge of the noble qualities of which every individual is composed, of those attributes of uniqueness, talents, skills, and virtues. These attributes inform men of their identity and then conditions their understanding of their station in life and the nature of their vocation in relation to the principles and laws governing life.

Men lose sense of who they are the moment they begin and constantly try to measure up themselves with other individuals. A man jealous another man when he measures himself with the other and then tells himself what he does not possess which the other possesses and, thereby, grieves and becomes envious of the one which has what he has not. And often, the obvious fact that we cannot meet up or become like those we envy and jealous make the emotion of jealousy more deadly....to us! We refuse to realize that the other person is,  and must be, different from us, and that we are likewise different from the other. Where he is, is the result of his effort at becoming, at reaching a point higher than where the others lie. When we jealous a successful man, it is not he that we display jealousy to, it is to his successes and the principles that got him there!

Understand: by the conscious or unconscious application of certain principles and laws of the universe certain few men rise above the many. What these few now possess which the many will not fret and strain and work hard to get now becomes a source of envy against them.

The understanding of life and the laws which govern existence lays hope on the breasts of all men that by the same application of these principles those things which incite the jealousy of one against another can be attained, and well at that. But if men lack this understanding and look upon themselves as unfortunate, deprived or unprivileged - if they think little of themselves - it is of all certainty that they would wallow under the evil of jealousy.  And only they can help themselves.