There are no external threats. If we've learned but one thing from the Romans, it's that external threats are just projections of the internal.

I like this point.

"Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action."

Hugh Kingsmill 1944

I would live in the most original state of my being.