The Spiritual Flower Garden. “Why is this man not cheerful,” they asked one sage, pointing to the envious one, who always walked with a gloomy and tearful face? - “Because,” answered an experienced expert on human nature, “either some misfortune happened to him, or his neighbor was lucky.” Philaret Mitr. Moscow - Basil the Great to the question: how did evil happen? - answers: it happened the way darkness happens when you close your eyes. It is not the one who created the eye who is to blame that you closed your eyes and it became dark for you. What does freedom serve? - To choose good and be blissful in an angelic and human way, and not just wander the earth like cattle or vegetate like grass. St. John Chrysostom. - The demon envies people, and not another demon; and you, man, envy man, rebel against what is of the same tribe and homogeneous to you, which even the demon does not do! What forgiveness, what justification will you have! Filaret Metr. Moscow - When a house burns, crowds of people run to fight the fire for logs and boards of an unknown owner. But when the soul burns with the fire of evil passion, lust, rage, anger, despair; - is it just as easy to find people who would hasten to extinguish the deadly fire with the living water of the word of truth and love before it embraced all the powers of the soul and spread to merge with the fire of Gehenna? Spiritual Flower Garden. - If envy is sorrow, then the envious person has as many sorrows and sufferings as others have various blessings and perfections. This disease is the beginning of eternal sorrows, the guarantee of endless suffering. The devil suffers such torment, and the envious on earth can feel and understand what hellish torment is. Source: