The Hidden Minds

The Framework

Envy

Gratitude / Envy

Gladness at another's good, against the rivalry that turns their gain into your loss.

Every profile lands somewhere between gratitude and envy. Use this page to see which figures are pulled most strongly toward each pole, then follow the links down into the stories themselves.

Most toward Gratitude

  1. 01JonathanThe crown prince who handed his own succession to the man who would take it.
  2. 02MosesHe never wanted the job. The weight of it finally struck the rock.
  3. 03DanielUnshaken before kings and lions; undone only by what he was shown.
  4. 04AbrahamFaith and fear, braided so tight he kept taking the promise back.
  5. 05Mary MagdaleneSeven demons gone, and the first clear mind at the empty tomb.
  6. 06RuthA foreign widow who clung where everyone else, sensibly, let go.

Most toward Envy

  1. 01CainEnvy at a brother's acceptance, carried all the way to blood.
  2. 02HamanRage at one man who would not bow, scaled up into a plan to erase a people.
  3. 03SaulA king who could not bear that anyone might rule better.
  4. 04JonahHe ran from God, then resented him for being merciful.
  5. 05SarahShe seized the promise that shamed her by waiting, then blamed the servant she used.
  6. 06JudasPeter's failure, with one door he could not imagine opening.

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