The realization of inner spirituality and the phenomena populating the external narrative are only seemingly contradictory. They are not mutually exclusive.
These two terms must balance our spiritual equation and then be embraced with a single perspective.
Notes & Silence 
There as maxim: « As above, so below. » You appear to have redrafted it as: « As within, so without. »
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Maybe this reveals that there is no above but within.
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Maybe all such formulations are imagery to make comprehensible something that is not, really, describable.
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