Stefan Klein im Interview: "Der innere Schweinehund ist ein irrer Mythos"

It’s simply that it’s scary to take even one step forward; also, that you don’t want to make realistic efforts. You don’t want to change so much that you’d be willing to sacrifice the pleasures you enjoy now—for instance, the time you spend playing and engaged in hobbies. In other words, you’re not equipped with the courage to change your lifestyle

human beings have a universal tendency to loathe what is in our best interest. In other words, the things that are most potentially transformative, that can heal us in the ways we most desperately desire to be healed; these are the things we most often have to wrestle ourselves to the ground over. Lifestyle changes like yoga, meditating, eating rig

But that desire in itself is not enough to displace a lifetime of hunger-habits that have built up. Those have to be undone and replaced. And that is going to take practice—since that’s how I learned the original hungers as well.

But you can’t just extricate yourself from a whole social, political system of ideologies just like that, through sheer force of will.