In the mystical field it is said that all human beings are possessed by inner demons.
Everyone suffers from a lack of inner unity, everyone lacks a governing element, everyone lacks a “permanent self”.
Now a strong physical impulse directs us: hunger, tiredness, sex, anger, fear; then an emotional impulse replaces it: guilt, pretension, self-pity or the need for recognition; then a mental impulse replaces that: curiosity, disagreement, distraction, daydreaming, and all this, happens repeatedly, daily, without end.
We pretend to be consxcious, to be unified. This aggravates our difficulty, because not only do we lack unity, but we ignore our lack of unity; not only are we slaves to our inner impulses, we are also unconscious slaves.
As long as we pretend to have mastery and control over our lives, we will never make the necessary efforts to free ourselves from our inner demons.
The only way is to penetrate ever deeper into the depths of our being, beyond our demons, until we locate their living and vivifying root to be it.
The Truth is always hidden to a superficial vision.
