I like calling it “the gap,” or the space between thoughts.

Fundamentally all the demons that we have looked at are thought processes that block a state of clear awareness, and they grow out of this demon of ego fixation. The practice of feeding your demons seeks to liberate all these demons and transform the energy caught up in them into positive energy,

Deciding What Demon to Work On A good way to choose what to focus on is to ask yourself the following questions: • What is draining my energy? • What is dragging me down? • What is “eating” me? • What incident has disturbed me recently?

He was handsome and self-assured, and he conveyed to Sophia that he would win in the end. The strongest impression that Sophia had of the demon was his sense of entitlement over her. He told her, “I own you and have owned you for a long time. I always win over you, and that’s not changing now. You should stop trying to resist me, because you really

One way to talk about the formation of the ego is to say that our consciousness starts dancing in the vastness, and soon we are dancing so intensely we lose sight of our relationship with that space and become caught up in an experience of “I.”

a god, which is connected to longing for something, or being obsessed with a certain outcome.

The ego fears its own demise and is devious in avoiding detection; our demons are the ego’s worker bees.

If you feel shame and follow it, you will find many other demons, including addiction, power, abuse, and anxiety. When we have a shame demon we long to be invisible but secretly desire the approval of others.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Rumi (1207–1273)