The Lower Self

The lower self does not want anyone

to receive anything from anybody else,
and if it is aware of something receiving a special boon,
it seeks to destroy it. 

 
Essential Sufism (1997) by James Fadiman and Robert Frager 

Whatever possessions and objects of its desires
the lower self may obtain,

it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more,

or out of fear of poverty and need.

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