Envy / Jealousy Deadly Sin

"6. O SON OF EARTH!
Know, verily, the heart wherein the least remnant of envy yet lingers, shall never attain My everlasting dominion, nor inhale the sweet savors of holiness breathing from My kingdom of sanctity.

    (Baha'u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words)"

PERSONAL NOTE: There is a state of honest righteous indignation suspicion when encountering a group of individuals so prejudice and conceited with their superior material wealth situation / or disparity of opportunity others have/ that a certain emotion of resentment or distrust is warranted that a source of charity is a predator.

Duly noted “predator” is not found very often in the Bahai writings Ocean library

NOTES FROM SAM VAKNIN ON THIS SUBJECT  QUOTES mixes with some of My NOTES:

 https://www.healthyplace.com/personality-disorders/malignant-self-love/the-green-eyed-narcissist-full-of-envy-envious-of-people

TYPES OF EXPRESSING ENVY:

1. IMITATION / EMULATION of OBJECT OF ENVY Subsuming the Object of Envy through Imitation

2. DESTROY OBJECT OF ENVY: Destroying the Frustrating Object

embarked on paths of rivalry and enmity and destruction.

3. SELF DEPRECATING There are those who idealize the successful and the rich and the lucky. They attribute to them super-human, almost divine, qualities.

4. BUT THE MOST COMMON REACTION IS THE GOOD OLD COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

It is to prefer the belief that the grapes are too sour rather than to the admission of their desirability. These people devalue the source of their frustration and envy. They find faults, unattractive features, high costs to pay, immorality in everything they really most desire and aspire to and in everyone who has attained that which they so often can't. These narcissists walk among us critical and self-righteous, inflated with the justice of their own making, their high moral ground and secure in the wisdom of being what they are rather than what they could have been and really wish to be. These narcissists make a virtue of “jejune” abstention, of wishful constipation, of judgmental neutrality. These qualities, these behaviors, these oxymorons, are the favorite of the disabled. And the narcissist is an invalid.

“Narcissists recoil from the sources of their envy because envy is painful. They adopt sometimes avoidance. Schizoid solution. To witness the success and joy of others is too painful. Too agonizing. And Too high a price to pay. So these narcissists stay at home alone and in communicado. They inhabit the artificial bubble that is their world. And in this bubble they are the king of the country. [the fucking entire world with Godmode video games!] There within the bubble they are the law, they are the outsing, they are the one and only. There in the penumbral recesses of their home, their study, their office, the flickering laptop their only company. The only noises are electronic [man cave]. And they are the residents of their own burgeoning delusions. And so in this bubble They’re happy. they’re soothed. They are what they dream. They dream their own being. These narcissists are no longer real. They are they become kind of narrative an invention of their own feverish minds. A colorful myth sustaining and engulfing. But they are content.”

FINALLY WE NEED TO DISCUSS Romantic Jealousy: Pathological envy is not the same as romantic jealous. Narcissistic defense treating the spouse and regarding her as an object and of course as an extention autonomous action. Cheating is percieved as a tantamount of encroachment of self. Exactly like non-narcissists humiliated by having been lied to. Its kind of denial of services. House chorers. Romantic jealousy is product of violation of trust. Where else lurks deceit foremention narcissistic enmeshmant.

PATHOLOGICAL ENVY by Sam Vaknin

New Oxford Dictionary: A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, quality, or luck.

Mortification & ill will contemplation of another person’s serious advantages.

Pathological envy is a deadly sin, but it is a compounded emotion, not a simple one. It is brought on by the realization of some lack or deficiency or inadequacy in one’s self as a result of unfavorably comparing one’self to other people, to their success, their reputation, their possessions, their luck, their qualities. Envy is misery and humiliation and impotent rage in a tortureous slippery path to nowhere.

The effort to break the padded walls of this self visited purgatory often leads to attacks on the perceived source of frustration.

There is actually a spectrum of reaction to this pernicious cognitively distorting emotion: envy.

IMITATION / EMULATION of OBJECT OF ENVY: Some sought to imitate or even emulate the newfound heroes of the capitalist revolution.

“CONSPICIOUS AND OSTENTATION CONSUMPTION” impulsive reckless behaviors. Get rich quick schemes of crime & corruption.

DESTROY OBJECT OF ENVY:

provoking in them feelings of inadequacy and frustration

beligned animosity

engage in compulsive acts of rivalry often at the cost of self destruction & self isolation