“Interactions with others do occur, of course, yet there are none that you do not accept or draw to you by your thoughts, attitudes, or emotions. This applies in each area of life. In your terms, it applies both before life and after it. In the most miraculous fashion are you given the gift of creating your experience.”[i]
That is to say, we create our own reality.
[i] Roberts, Jane. The Nature of Personal Reality. New York: Bantam, 1974, p. 10.