Ashish Kothari says love is our essential nature, but fear of annihilation drives us to hide behind defense mechanisms. Inner work and yoga practice bring buried wounds to light, requiring the courage of a spiritual warrior to face personal demons without losing sight of being love.
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Love never leaves because we are love. We are made of that energy we call love. We get so lost because we have had so much put on top of that love and it goes into self protection and fear of annihilation is really what that is. Our deepest fear is that we will die and so we will build up all sorts of defense mechanisms to cope, coping strategies and I have to say that in doing this work and practicing many of the attributes of yoga believe me it all comes up, it comes up to be cleared away so we, we don't get out of doing the work in a sense and we have to be really courageous we have to be spiritual warriors in that sense because we do have to confront our own demons and some of us are more damaged, more wounded than others but we all carry some kind of wound somewhere there will be a wound that we will hit and it's important we don't fall into that wound and then forget that we are in fact love.