Envy: What Our Hearts Truly Desire

Gunnar, one of the benefits of being invited to do a podcast is you have to think about it a little bit more than you normally would.

And that has been invaluable because my first thought is that comparisons are just a human instinct.

They're what we all do.

And since they're like an instinct, we don't even think about them.

They're a bothersome instinct of course but they are just so profoundly human in every person in every culture at all times so so with that in mind the idea of pulling this out and identifying it is really important so yeah i'll start um okay it's on the greed end of the spectrum okay we know that it's i want i want something So I move on to that end of the spectrum, and I think of, okay, I go into a music store, and I want most everything that's in there.

Okay, but that doesn't quite get to

envy.

It's getting close, but there's something about envy that is more personal.

It's, I want what that other person has.

The other person has something that is admirable, that receives some recognition from other people.

And I don't.

That's what I want.

For me, that sort of situated us in this.

And once I've been situated there, all of a sudden I can see it all over the place.

That's a great place to start, Ed.

You know, what I would add to that is it's not only recognition or attention, glory, we would say, you know, in a spiritual category.

It's also whatever I value, whatever is important to me in my heart, what I treasure.

If someone else has more of that, in my opinion, and they're around me, yeah.

That's where my heart, that's where my envy is stirred up is, you know, I want that it's important to me in this person has it and it's, I like where you start with greed.

If it's something I don't value.

You know, if I'm driving, you know, a 1998 Chevy Chevette.

Actually, I had an 83.

And I love it.

I was going to say, Chevettes

weren't, people weren't driving them by