Just like looking through tinted sunglasses, we filter our experience of the world through our thoughts and perceptions. These filters are created out of our own unique experiences, emotions and opinions. Therefore, we develop a unique view of the world: uniquely different from everybody else’s.

We evolve over time, developing our experiences and opinions as we go, which means our tinted view of the world changes as well.

This means that to change the world, you only have to change your view of it: for to change the world you only need to change yourself. Now you might be thinking that there is poverty and war throughout the world and you can’t change that. Well, you might or you might not – it depends what you do about it but still, those sort of things are what they are – they don’t mean anything by themselves without us bringing our own interpretation to them, and while it’s possible for these external acts and environmental factors to threaten your physical existence, they are separate from your view of the world and, as such, you can then choose whether or not your thoughts about these external events run your life or not.

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”
― Hermes Trismegistus