ready to fight tooth and nail

The natural life... knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centeredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that. ”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

I want to do what I want to do. I want to be left alone.

So when I move towards anything that looks like health whether it’s exercise, recovery, spiritual practice, or even taking out the garbage— I get push back.

I should expect it. It’s natural.

"It is afraid of the light and air of the spiritual world," Lewis writes. "Just as people who have been brought up to be dirty are afraid of a bath"