It was said that envy is the most humiliating of all the deadly sins to be accused of, and because of that, people often try to hide it.
Most of us could still sleep decently if accused of anger or pride or lust or even greed. But to be accused of envy would be by far the worst.
— Episode: The Evil of Envy
Episode: The Evil of Envy
It was said that envy is the most humiliating of all the deadly sins to be accused of, and because of that, people often try to hide it.
Most of us could still sleep decently if accused of anger or pride or lust or even greed. But to be accused of envy would be by far the worst.
The other sins, though all have the disapproval of religion, do not so thoroughly, deeply demean, diminish and disqualify a person.
But you see the stigma of envy is its enormous pettiness.
Nobody wants to be found guilty or be accused of having lost their temper or greed or lust or pride. But envy, to be accused of envy, is to be accused of being so small, so shriveled, so ungenerous.
Giving into sloth and laziness, giving into sloth is rather pleasant. He says, giving into the loss of temper, losing one's temper, he says, entails a release that is not without its small delights.
And lust, greed, pride bring quite a bit of pleasure for quite a long time.
Only envy is absolutely no fun at all.
Draining all joy from you from its very first moment, we have all felt envy's desperate, deep, soul-destroying, lacerating stabs.
Envy might be the greatest Rorschach test of all. Learn what you envy and you will know who you are.