Envy Peace

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Buddha

Where did the phrase “green with envy” come from? According to Idiom Origins , it was Shakespeare who “was the first to form an association between jealousy and the colour green in The Merchant of Venice (1596) Act III, Scene II when he described jealousy as ‘green-eyed’… The actual phrase green with envy made its appearance in 1853 in a novel by Henry William Herbert.” Hopefully learning that didn’t push out more important things from your memory bank.

About the author

Siddhartha Gautama , most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. ’the awakened one’), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic. After leading a life of mendicancy, asceticism, and meditation, he attained nirvana at Bodh Gayā in what is now India. The Buddha then wandered through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order. Buddhist tradition holds he died in Kushinagar and reached parinirvana (“final release from conditioned existence”).