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Jealousy: hostility toward a rival or one believed to enjoy an advantage.

Envy:
-a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.

-desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to someone else.

"He that looks through a green glass sees no other color."
- Thomas Adams

What’s at the root of jealousy & envy?
Comparison: -a consideration or estimate of the similarities or dissimilarities between two things or people.

"O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."
-William Shakespeare

These emotions of jealousy & envy find their impetus from within you not from without.

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Jealousy & Envy are the monsters we create that end up destroying us.

"Envy and hatred try to pierce our neighbor with a sword. But the blade cannot reach him unless it first pass through our own body."
- Augustine of Hippo

What's the price of jealousy & envy....What’s the cost of comparison?

Comparison will cause you to be numb:
Numb to your success.
Numb to your abilities
Numb to potential allies.
Numb to collaboration.

How do you squash the emotions of jealousy & envy?

You do it by counteracting comparison from within.

Counteracting: to act against something in order to reduce its force or neutralize it.

Counteracting Comparison
#1 Remind yourself of the uniqueness & giftings (blessings) of God you possess.