Always that one
When the mind has to choose what to buy, what process does it use to make that choice? In the morning, when it has to decide what clothes to put on, does it consider the temperature outside? When it decides to buy a car, what does the mind take into consideration?
When it has to choose, the mind follows only those processes which are determined by envy. Satan, the loser prince of the world, has chained our mind to a single mental process: envy. Even for him, it is the only possible mental process. The Scriptures say that death entered the world because of his envy (The Book of Wisdom 2:24).
Envy is the first and irreproachable system to program our thoughts, to rearrange our prejudices, to replenish slander and calumny, to think ill of God, His justice, and providence. It is envy that makes us think ill of God, of others, of ourselves, and feeds our non-belief in God, our conflict with others, and our lack of self-confidence. Envy makes us live life as if it were a movie, where everything that happens to us makes sense if it somehow placates our envy, otherwise it is rejected as unjust, inconvenient, annoying, illogical. It is under the influence of envy that the mind turns itself on inevitably to cast blame for what has been taken away, but it is not equally ready to be thankful for what remains.
Envy has a daughter, vanity, and their umbilical cord is satanically perfect and indestructible. All the more envy makes us feel inferior and treated unfairly by life all the more vanity assists us with a grandiose sense of selfishness, craving for success, and lust for power.
Jesus offers a powerful antidote to envy: the desire to become the first ones in serving others, in loving through humility. Humility is acknowledging with gratitude and joy the divine origin of all things, it is recognizing always and everywhere that everything we have comes from God and that we can share it with others for free.