All The World's A Mirror

We receive at the hands of the world according to the measure of our giving. For bad, bad; for good, good. For defective conduct, indifferent influence and imperfect success; for superior conduct, lasting power and consummate achievement. We act, and the world responds. When the foolish man fails, he blames others and sees no error in himself; but the wise man watches and corrects himself, and so is assured of success.

As A Man Thinketh - James Allen

The more self-aware we become, the more we realize that our world is simply one big mirror.

What we are dwelling on internally projects back to us “out there” in our day to day lives.

Just as we would stop and glance at our appearance in the mirror and make adjustments; brush our hair, snap on a necklace or tie a tie, we use that physical mirror as a directive to go for the exact thing that needs to be adjusted.

We don’t actually blame the mirror if the hair won’t part right or the knot in the tie isn’t quite working. We realize WE have to make the adjustments in order for the mirror to reflect back our satisfactory desire.

Try as we may to correct and adjust all the things going on in our lives that appear unworkable, we will only achieve assured success, as Allen suggests, by correcting ourselves – our thoughts about the situation.  No use blaming the world for the world is only reflecting back  to you what you're thinking.

A fable speaks of  a wise man sitting outside the city gates when a traveler approaches and asks him what the people in the city are like. The wise man asked the traveler what the people were like in his last city and the traveler rants about how awful they were, unfriendly, mean spirited, etc. The wise man tells the traveler he will find the people in this city to be the same.

The traveler moves on.

As the wise man continues to sit, another traveler approaches and asks him what the people in the city are like. The wise man asks this traveler the same question as before: what were the people like in his last city. The traveler gets a peaceful, loving look in his eyes and talks about how wonderful they were, loving, kind and friendly. The wise man tells the traveler he will find this city to have the same loving, kind and friendly people.

The world is the mirror of our internal dialogue.

Real and lasting change must first begin within.