Once you've done this work — once you've practiced telling the difference between what belongs to others and what belongs to you, between what can be blocked and what can't be blocked — then you focus only on what can't be blocked. You keep your desires fixed on what truly concerns you. You turn away from what doesn't concern you. After all this practice, do you still fear anyone? No. What would you be afraid of? The things that are truly yours — where good and evil actually exist? Who has power over those things? Who can take them away? Who can stop them? No one can. No more than someone can stop God. But would you be afraid about your body and your stuff? Those things that aren't really yours? Things that don't actually concern you?
When you have made this preparation, and have practised this discipline, to distinguish that which belongs to another from that which is your own, the things which are subject to hindrance from those which are not, to consider the things free from hindrance to concern yourself, and those which are not free not to concern yourself, to keep your desire steadily fixed to the things which do concern yourself, and turned from the things which do not concern yourself; do you still fear any man? No one. For about what will you be afraid? About the things which are your own, in which consists the nature of good and evil? and who has power over these things? who can take them away? who can impede them? No man can, no more than he can impede God. But will you be afraid about your body and your possessions, about things which are not yours, about things which in no way concern you?