Yes. We can (and do) take actions in the outside world, but everything flows from within, and if our minds are a mess, so will our actions be. As the owners of ourselves, each of us is responsible for doing our best to listen to all the parts of our brain, to give them all a hearing, to notice how we are reacting to events that impinge upon us ("Why did that thing he said bug me in some way?"), and to be alert for more productive and less stressful ways of being. Very few individuals become genuine masters of this process, in my observation, but all of us can move in that direction and experience the benefits of doing so.
Yes. We can (and do) take actions in the outside world, but everything flows from within, and if our minds are a mess, so will our actions be. As the owners of ourselves, each of us is responsible for doing our best to listen to all the parts of our brain, to give them all a hearing, to notice how we are reacting to events that impinge upon us ("Why did that thing he said bug me in some way?"), and to be alert for more productive and less stressful ways of being. Very few individuals become genuine masters of this process, in my observation, but all of us can move in that direction and experience the benefits of doing so.