meditation on love - day 2

“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
---Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

Second day of meditation on love, Love does not envy..

Envy, in the love context when we look at that particular word it seems that it has a tight relationship with jealousy. I thought so too at the first time, it seems that when we feel envious when we are in love it is because we feel jealous of something or someone. We think that "Oh, she likes that other fellow than me. That's why he always walk beside her everywhere she goes. I wish I could be like her." or "I wish my man doesn't concentrate on the game every saturday. I wish he could go out with me."

I looked up some quotes on envy and when I read things about envy, it does not fully symbolize jealousy. Some of it said “Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”; others state “Envy is an insult to oneself.”

It seems that I discover a new kind of meaning in envy, envy is a state when one does not feel sufficient in his own blessing. Love does not envy.

Love have to accept one and another, I think that what Love does not envy means. Love have to accept the bad, the good and the ugly of the people they love. True love does not look and judge upon one's bad good but continuously giving compassion. Love does not envy others when others give an expensive bouquet of roses on valentine's day, love does not envy when one does not give a good night kiss while other does.Love that does not envy is the love that not seek attention but give compassion, it gives hope when every thing started to fade away, it sees higher when everybody look down upon.

while writing this I learned to give love compassionately without seeing who she was or what she has done, I have to show my love simply because I love her...

lastly I wanna share quotes of why should we love un-enviously....

“Envy eats nothing but its own heart”
-German Proverb quotes

“Envy shoots at others and wounds itself”
-English Proverb quotes

“As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.”
-Saint John Chrysostom quotes (Church Father, biblical interpreter , and archbishop of Constantinople, 347-407)

to the one that I heart the most...