Fear & hope

Rising up from the ground through the body there is a pedestal of tension upon which sits our self. We identify with this self and we cling to this pedestal – it is our strength – our rock – and if ever it should fall the ego would tumble and we would be left with nothing: precisely the nothing we strive for as spiritual beings. The pedestal must be laboriously dismantled piece by peace – there is no other way. This is why when tension releases in any part of the body a twinge is felt in the chest – a stab of fear from the ego and a leap of hope from the heart. Always two responses. We yearn for spiritual progress yet it threatens us enormously.