I have found that I frequently keep waiting for the next step and wanting to improve this and that in my life. In a way, these ambitions are good, even admirable. However, if they prevent me from enjoying the current moment and the day that is blessed on me, these ambitions are no longer good and no longer admirable. Similarly, if I become wishful for something I do not have, but think I should have (to have happiness), it keeps me from enjoying what I have.

And regarding the materialism that is so very rampant in our current culture, this envy…this want of other material possessions…has (and has had) the potential to take away my peace whether that is in comfort, finances, or work satisfaction.

“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” vs 30