When the acknowledgment of our difficulties entails the reduction of our long-cherished conceit, the admission of envy, or the abandonment of deep-seated prejudices, the average person prefers to cling to the old illusions of safety and to the long-cherished false feelings of security. [1] Envy is a deep-seated human trait; therefore did primitive man ascribe it to his early gods. [2] Only a moral conscience can condemn the evils of national envy and racial jealousy. [3] Jesus comforted a young Phoenician in Ephesus who was envious of a young man who had received promotion over his head. [4]
Jesus insisted in keep free of covetousness: “Take heed and keep yourselves free from covetousness; a man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things which he may possess”. [5] Many Havona pilgrims look back upon the long, long struggle with a joyous envy almost wish they could begin ascension all again. [6]
Man is able to transcend the material irritations of the lower levels of thinking—worry, jealousy, envy, revenge, and the pride of immature personality. [7]
All physical poisons greatly retard the efforts of the Adjuster to exalt the material mind, while the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy, suspicion, and intolerance likewise tremendously interfere with the spiritual progress of the evolving soul. [8] Pharisees’ inner souls filled with self-righteousness, covetousness, extortion, and all manner of spiritual wickedness. [9] Fear, envy, and conceit can be prevented only by intimate contact with other minds. [10]
‘There is he who waxes rich by his wariness and much pinching, and this is the portion of his reward: Whereas he says, I have found rest and now shall be able to eat continually of my goods, yet he knows not what time shall bring upon him, and also that he must leave all these things to others when he dies’. [11]