Protection is often mistaken for safety. We indeed have protection and safety confused. We are taught that what keeps us safe is our defense or protection system. We are taught that the more protection we have, the safer we are.
Protection is about keeping out.
Protection looks for the danger and then builds walls to keep it from entering. We seek to keep out what we fear. We protect ourselves from encountering what seems to threaten us. The only difficulty with this is that what we keep out, we also keep in. Ultimately, we cannot protect ourselves, for this involves a system of defense that will fail us eventually.