The only person who can destroy me is me.

I hesitate because I think and believe that if I stick my neck out, if I let my voice be heard, the world will destroy me. It feels like a certainty that I will not survive it. 

But who has the power to destroy me? Whose job is it? Where does the destruction take place?

The only person who can destroy me is me (and not even that because the only place I can ever be destroyed is in what I’m thinking and believing). 

How about I just don’t destroy me? How about we just do that?

That’s the work: Building the skill of not destroying me in my mind.