The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

To put it another way, everything we experience in life is a function of three spiritual facts: we are alive, we are aware, and we think.

the brilliant Principles-based psychiatrist William Pettit.

At that point, something that Syd Banks once said about humility came to mind: ‘Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less.

We’re playing with the house’s money. There’s nothing real at stake. The only thing we have to lose is the illusion that something outside us can make us happy, safe, and secure.

What would it be like to play the game of life with that same degree of fearlessness and freedom, knowing that everything that really counted – your well-being, happiness, love, and self-worth – was already yours to keep? After all, you were born with them, and the only thing that can ever take you away from them is a thought.

At the level of illusion, the mind is seen to work less as a camera or paintbrush than as a kaleidoscope, creating endless patterns of experience as it diffracts the oneness of life via the prism of Thought. This is the level of understanding that invites the miraculous – transformations that defy rational explanation and insights that redefine the

And in the end, that seems to me to be the core of all our desires: the freedom to be able to enjoy our life and be a contribution to the whole in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, as best we can for as long as we’re here. How things ultimately turn out isn’t up to us. It never was. But if we do our bit and play our part, it’s remar

What Syd Banks saw when he had his enlightenment experience was that we live in a world of thought. Not a world influenced by thought, where positive outperforms negative and gives us a ‘competitive advantage in the marketplace,’ but a world that is actually created from thought. And the moment we stop fighting with ourselves and others about what

The simplest way to gauge your current level of consciousness is to tune in to your feelings. When you’re feeling low (angry, frustrated, stressed out, uncomfortable, unwell, etc.), chances are that your level of consciousness has dipped and your view of yourself, your life, and the world is relatively limited. When your mood is higher and you’re f