The World Is Your Mirror
The world is the human imagination pushed out.
See a situation as something on the outside and you become entangled in its shadow. For everyone who responds to your imagined act is a shadow. How can a shadow be causative in your world? The moment you give another the power of causation, you have transferred to him (them) the power that rightfully belongs to you. Others are only shadow bearing witness to the activities taking place in you.
The world is a mirror forever reflecting what you do in yourself.