“Originally, there were only a few people who could harm you. Your parents, your siblings. They knew enough not to, but they also found ways in, and to protect yourself you developed strategies that you use to this day, even though the danger is past. What felt like danger was only misunderstanding, but often the hurt was real. Now you don’t speak to any of them because they still don’t understand you. But what does that matter, why do you still carry around a ten-foot iron wall? Nothing can harm you unless you allow it to, and you don’t need a wall to protect you from harm, you need to let go of thinking that you can be harmed. This goes for words and for weapons. The harm is in your deciding that it’s harm. When you wake up to the way things are you’ll see. You’ll see that everything just is, and nothing beyond your field of influence makes any difference. Rest.”
