What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see.
Interpretation
Our external world reflects our internal beliefs and thoughts.
This quote by Emmet Fox emphasizes the powerful relationship between our internal mindset and the realities we perceive in the world around us. It suggests that the beliefs and thoughts we hold deeply influence what we see and experience in life. By examining our surroundings and reactions, we can gain insight into our own habitual thinking and the beliefs that shape our reality.
In practice
In a motivational speech, one might use this quote to inspire self-reflection among attendees.
Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.
What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.
To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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