“There is a second self inside you, an inner, shadow Self. This self doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t love you. It has its own agenda, and it will kill you. It will kill you like cancer. It will kill you to achieve its agenda, which is to prevent you from actualizing your Self, from becoming who you really are. This shadow self is called, in the Kabbalistic lexicon, the ‘yetzer hara.’ The yetzer hara, Steve, is what you would call Resistance.”

Rabbi Mordecai Finley, in conversation, July 4, 2010

This is the beginning of the email I received from Steven Pressfield this morning – to read the rest of his post go here https://stevenpressfield.com/2023/09/a-second-bad-self/

If this resonates with you – read his book The War of Art.

Sept 23, 2023