Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

As Pema Chödrön puts it: “When the resistance is gone, the demons are gone.”

making friends with our own demons and their accompanying insecurity leads to a very simple, understated relaxation and joy.

What you call a demon we just call another normal moment in the endless thought-storm that is a human mind. Do you want the thought storm to end? Oh, it will, sweetie, at the conclusion of your life. But until then, your mind will do what minds do — it will chew at itself, it will tumult about, it will feel joy and pride and awe, but also terror a