When you change, your environment changes, too. When your inner resolve changes, everything is transformed.

Buddhism Day by Day

Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, February 10, 2014:

 

Nichiren explains that to know oneself is to know all things in the universe. When you change, your environment changes, too. When your inner resolve changes, everything is transformed. This principle is summed up by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's maxim, "Nothing's outside that's not within."