Instead, thoughts make sense only in reference to the individuals' external world.

相反，思想只有当和个人的外部世界相关时才有意义。

Again the world is not just the external world.

世界不只是外在世界。

The external world cannot affect or disturb you.

外部世界不会影响或打扰你。

Our internal and external worlds are full of storiesthat shape our behaviors.

我们的内部和外部世界充满了塑造我们行为的故事。

Your brain doesn't just predict what's happening in the external world — it also predicts what's going on inside of you.

你的大脑不仅预测外部世界正在发生的事情，它还预测你的内心正在发生的事情。

Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world.

不要把所有的注意力都放在头脑和外部世界上。

You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind.

你不会在外在世界迷失自我，也不会在内心迷失自我。

It's because I no longer have the need or the desire to perform for the external world.

因为我不再有为外界表演的需要和欲望。

Instead of being about the external world, experiences of selfhood are fundamentally about regulating and controlling the body.

自我体验从根本上讲是关于调节和控制身体，而不是关于外部世界。

Buddha argued that fundamentally, our external world is in perpetual, unattainable flux, and consequently, so too are we.

佛陀认为， 从根本上来说， 我们的外部世界处于永恒的、不可实现的变化中，因此，我们也同样如此。

Although you can't establish the order of the external world, you have the capacity to generate the order of your internal world.

虽然你不能建立外部世界的秩序，但你有能力产生你内心世界的秩序。

The redness of this coffee cup, it seems to be a mind-independent, really existing property of the external world.

这个咖啡杯的红色，似乎是一种独立于心灵的、真实存在的外部世界的属性。

Every moment of every day, your body is being bombarded by countless signals containing information about the external world.

每一天的每一刻，你的身体都在被无数包含外部世界信息的信号轰炸。

Of course it is not by argument that we originally come by our belief in an independent external world.

当然，我们最初是来自对一个独立的外部世界的信念， 这并不是通过争论得出的。

It is your own mind more than anything that is happening in the external world that gets in your way.

阻碍你前进的是你自己的思想，而不是外部世界发生的任何事情。

It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on YOU with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.

它面对——或者似乎面对——整个永恒的世界一刹那，然后就凝注在你身上，对你表现出不可抗拒的偏爱。

Although you can’t establish the order of the external world, you have the capacity to generate the order of your internal world.

虽然你不能建立外部世界的秩序，但你有能力建立你内心世界的秩序。

This idea has a long history in philosophical scepticism (the idea that we can't know anything for sure about the external world) and other traditions.

这一观点在哲学怀疑论和其他传统学说中都具备着悠久的历史（即我们无法确切地了解外部世界的任何事情）。

The spider's responding to its external world in a way that we get to see and know what's happening to its internal world.

蜘蛛以一种我们可以看到并了解其内部世界正在发生的事情的方式对其外部世界做出反应。

Information about the world is gathered through senses such as vision, sound, smell, touch or taste, and helps us navigate and react to the external world appropriately.

我们用感官来收集信息， 像是视觉、听觉、嗅觉、触觉或是味觉，帮助我们合适地对世界做出反应。