And It Encounters a Lot of Realities

“Envy cannot be assuaged any more than cancer can be; they are both pathologies whose very being requires expansion to their neighbor’s territory. There is no fence that will ever be respected, no limitation that will be recognized as legitimate, no sense of proportion or humility sufficient to smother a sense of inferiority. By its nature, envy is expansive regardless of the realities it encounters” (Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction, p. 104).