CONCEPT AND POEM - INSIDE AND OUTSIDE (PDF-1205)

We are used to thinking that our mind is within our skull and that our inner life is inside and the external world is outside. One of the first things one learns in esoteric studies and knowledge is that that actual truth is just the reverse. What we call ‘outside’ or external is within, and what we call “in” is actually outside and surrounding any “thing.” Just as sugar or salt forms its crystal within itself from the surrounding fluid, so does external day-to-day reality form within the atmosphere of our surrounding mind. The same type of logic holds true when we inquire where life began.