Change, my dear, is not something that descends upon you from the outside as though life were an intruder forcing its will upon you. No—change is born within. It is conceived in the secret place of imagination and carried into expression through the channel of your own consciousness.
To believe that change happens to you is to see yourself as a passive victim of circumstance, waiting for fortune or fate to alter your path. But to awaken to the truth is to know that all transformation must happen through you—through the imaginal acts you dare to assume, through the states of consciousness you clothe yourself in, and through the conviction with which you persist. The outer world is but a mirror, faithfully reflecting the inner state you occupy.
When you shift your inner conversations, your assumptions, your deep felt sense of being, the world outside must rearrange itself accordingly. This is the law of consciousness: you are the operant power.
Change is not a gift handed to you; it is the fruit of what you dare to accept as true within yourself. Therefore, when you desire a new life, do not wait for external signs. Enter into the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Let it live in you, move through you, and embody itself as you. Then, without effort or strain, the outer world will echo the inner transformation that has already taken place.
