Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Do you tease others about their advantages, talents or triumphs?
*Do you attempt to co-create, manifest or otherwise generate more wealth, love or
happiness in your life?
*Do you get angry or depressed when a rival sports team beats your personal favorite?
*Do you feel that others do not deserve the rewards, benefits or blessings they receive?
*Do you blame God, the government or other people for your disadvantages, challenges
or misfortunes?
*If someone forbids you from doing something, do you desire to do it anyway — “just to
show them”?
*Do some people you know get preferential treatment?
*Do you feel sometimes (or a lot of the time) that “life is unfair”?
*Do you complain when things go wrong or gossip about others who make mistakes?
Chances are, you answered “yes” to at least a few of these queries. Of course, doing so
does not make you a “bad person” at all. It merely makes you a human being; responding
in “normal” ways to life’s incredible array of challenges, and responding “reasonably” to
many of life’s more intense temptations.
That having been said, being envious is not a given. Even though we are all sorely
tempted to be envious of our friends, associates and enemies, we remain conscious
beings, and as such, we all can choose the way we respond to every happenstance and
every situation.
And yet why choose differently? What is so dangerous about regularly succumbing to
envious thoughts or regularly engaging envy-inspired actions? Let’s take a look …
The CONSEQUENCES of our ENVY ADDICTION
Envy is more than just the dis-ease we feel when wanting something we cannot have, and
it is more than merely wishing we had more or that we could “catch up with the Joneses”.
No, envy carries with it a pair of consequences that are far more devastating;
consequences that destabilize our entire lives … and that ultimately destroy any hope we
might have for finding true Happiness therein.
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