Inside Job

A scene in Training Day:
A few thugs hold the barrel of a gun on Ethan Hawke's face. This is the kind of gun, if used on the fingers, would rip them off completely. Needless to say, Ethan Hawke is terrified to the core. But as twist of fate would have it, or his good karma (he earlier saves one of the thugs' cousin sister from danger), he comes out of it.

But the episode changes his stance totally. He walks into a very hostile neighborhood with a new found calm and does what he is supposed to do. That NDE (near death experience) mutates him completely into a new plane. However, technically, nothing much changed on the outside (a few thugs pointed a gun at him and let him go). It is just that, the incident broke some limitation inside him.

In spirituality, they say everything is an inside job. So much to the extent that it includes everything we perceive through the senses, that we think is outside, down to what we experience and how we respond. So, can we make whatever changes we need to make within us without outside help?

Eventually, the change will happen only on the inside. But we certainly can make good use of available outside help - which is essentially every life situation we face everyday!