<Now is the time to deal with the internal affairs.>            The condition of our mind (our internal condition) influences our feelings, our temper, and our attitudes toward our external conditions. It also influences our perceptions of external conditions and our reactions to them. Our reactions, in turn, have a great influence on our external conditions. For example, if we have negative feelings toward particular people or particular issues, our actions toward them will reflect those feelings. As a result we will experience their negative reactions in return and we will be affected accordingly.           Our internal and external conditions are deeply interconnected and are always influencing each other. Nevertheless, the development of modern civilization has focused mainly on changing external conditions. Moreover, that same approach has been incorporated into individual human behavior. People try to change or influence other people for their own individual convenience or benefit, and energies are mostly spent trying to bring about external change as if that were the only way to achieve a goal.