What I am inside determines what I experience outside.
I am an integral aspect of the Universe, a manifestation of its being, a reflection of the whole, and the whole itself. It would be inaccurate for me to say what I think, feel and do affects the environment around me, because such a statement is based on the assumption that I am somehow apart from that environment, separate from it. This belief, of course, is the legacy of dualistic Christianity morphed into materialistic science. And it is an error.
What I think, feel and do is the environment.
I had originally intended to here quote various sages, from philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre to scientists like Erwin Schrödinger, in defense of this assertion. But that seems rather pedantic to me at the moment. So instead, I’ll simply ask a question:
If my thoughts and feelings are intrinsically different and separate from the material substance of the physical Universe, how then do they manage to interact with matter?
