Love of Other People's Stuff
Envy with Anger and Pride as the sins of "Perverted Love." The other two groups are “Insufficient Love” and “Excessive Love of Earthy Goods.” Envy is perverted because it “loves” what other people possess, rather than what is Good, Beautiful and True. It is often portrayed as “eating away” the heart of the envious person. Showing that envious as among those farthest away from Paradise, with their eyes sewn shut, but weeping over their sins. A common metaphor for Envy is “wearing out the eyes", it is also refered to as "The Green Eyed Monster."
This happens in our everyday life on this earth. We all seem to think that someone else always has better then us. For most that’s true as far as materialistic things are concerned. But if we search deep we all have the same possibilities as the next person.
I guess it's a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side" ... or is it??? ..generally NOT SO!!
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