Like The Inside, Like The Outside

Funny how what goes on inside of you correlates with what happens in the outside world.

First you gain your own empirical knowledge of how your mind works, how emotions and moods arise and pass away, how they affect everything you do quite unbeknownst to you. Then at some point of time you realize that it works the same for the outside world. The physical basis of the inner and outer phenomena is different but the principle is the same: nothing is permanent in this floating world, it all crops up and vanishes and only affects you inasmuch you allow it. Calm equanimous mind calms the world around. Some moods, things even people disappear if you watch them like you watch sankaras inside of you.

To paraphrase the famous hermeneutic principle: "like the inside, like the outside".