R05 · Status and Envy
Envy and resentful comparison
Bitterness at another person's success, talent, recognition or good fortune.
Cues
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“Don't ruin the things you have by wanting what you don't have, but realize that they too are things you once did wish for.”
“It is in his power not to wish for what he has not, but cheerfully to employ what comes to him.”
“This state of inner attunement is not always joyful or serene ... Sometimes it involves feeling with devastating intensity the conflicts, the rages, the intimations of mortality we have been trying to deny ... Yearnings, rages, jealousies, dependencies, and estrangements can be safely lived through when the persons upon whom we might wrongly (or dangerously, or foolishly) unleash them are absent.”