I'm about to graduate with my Master's Degree in Urban Planning from MIT. Someone recently recommended J.K. Rowling's commencement speech at Harvard a few years back. Here is a snippet that touched me on how our internal states can affect external worlds:
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.
- J K Rowling (full speech available here)
