" Suppose you wear a particular dress and stand before a mirror. You will find the same reflection in the mirror. Similarly, your own thoughts and feelings reflect in the outside world. Everything is reaction, reflection, and resound. Your own life style is reflected in the outside world. Whatever you speak comes back to you as a reply. But people think that it is someone else who is speaking these words. This is the truth. However, different people explain this truth in different ways in keeping with the aphorism, "Ekam Sath Viprah Bahudha Vadanti" (truth is one, but the wise refer to it by various names). Every form you see in the outside world is in fact your own reflection.
- taken from Swami's 2008 New Year Discourse. Sai Ram
