Worlds within worlds. Marcus Aurelius 5.21

Ancient philosophers sometimes imagined each of us as a little world, a small vessel whose life imitates in miniature the larger life that is nature. Honoring the power of nature, which relates and guides all life, includes honoring the power of our own nature, which relates us to ourselves and the little patch we inhabit within nature's broad realms.

Τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τὸ κράτιστον τίμα· ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο τὸ πᾶσι χρώμενον καὶ πάντα διέπον. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐν σοὶ τὸ κράτιστον τίμα· ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο τὸ ἐκείνῳ ὁμογενές. καὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ σοῦ τὸ τοῖς ἄλλοις χρώμενον τοῦτό ἐστι, καὶ ὁ σὸς βίος ὑπὸ τούτου διοικεῖται.

Pay honor to the mightiest thing in the universe. This thing relates to every other thing, driving all of them. Pay honor likewise to the mightiest part of yourself. Your inner might is of the same kind as the might that drives the world, for it relates you to others, and your life is ruled by it.