The paradox is that in true interior ways, the only path to deep safety, that sea of inner peace, is through the shifting sands of risk. Risk opens safety. It doesn't shut it down. Only through the risk to open can we inhabit and receive the strength and fullness of what is whole.
This raises the very profound question of how to define self-protection. Is it hiding who you are or is it being who you are? Is it guarding yourself with all that you see or is it clearing yourself to let light in? Is it preparing yourself against all that can hurt you or is it opening yourself to all that can heal you?
Nepo, Mark. The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (20th Anniversary Edition) (p. 250). Red Wheel Weiser. Kindle Edition.
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