The world we perceive on the outside is only a projection of how we are on the inside. What we observe in another human being is only a reflection of how we first feel about ourselves. In other words, the outer world is a mirror of our inner world.
Since everything that happens to us in life is only a projection of our inner self, it is very effective to use every situation, and every external event as an indication to better understand ourselves if we want to grow.
The reality outside of us simply serves to point us to those sides of our character, those angles of our personality, and those aspects of our unconscious self that we stubbornly refuse to see.
Every person we meet, in fact, is there to remind us of some aspects of ourselves.
Every time we notice some traits we do not like in someone (but the reasoning also applies to aspects we like), those traits are actually something that belongs to us.
Instead of criticizing the things we don’t like in others, we would be very wise to ask ourselves WHY, of all things, we noticed those aspects.
Remember that what we observe in other individuals is a reflection of what we first feel about ourselves.
