“Man is, in the full sense of the term, a ‘miniature universe’; in him are all the matters of which the universe consists; the same forces, the same laws that govern the universe, operate in him; therefore in studying man we can study the whole world, just as in studying the world we can study man. But a complete parallel between man and the world can only be drawn if we take ‘man’ in the full sense of the word, that is a man whose inherent powers are developed. An undeveloped man, a man who has not complete the course of his evolution, cannot be taken as a complete picture or plan of the universe—he is an unfinished world.”
— P.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous