Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, my friends, I've been reading more of Marcus Aurelius' meditations, and I wanted to read

you a passage from page 137, if you've got the leather bound copy. Here is what he says about

living a good life. How about that? To live a good life. My gosh, shouldn't this be in the manual?

We all get at birth. Here is what he has to say. We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what

makes no difference, this is how we learn by looking at each thing, both the parts and the whole,

keeping in mind that none of them can dictate how we perceive it. They don't impose

themselves on us. They hover before us unmoving. It is we who generate the judgments, inscribing them

on ourselves. If you're in self-coaching society, we talk about this a lot, right? There's the circumstances, there's the stuff that's happening, and then there is the meaning

that we assign.

Or alias here says the judgments we assign.

We inscribe them on ourselves.

And we don't have to.

We could leave the page blank.

And if a mark slips through, erase it instantly.

Remember how brief is the attentiveness required, and then our lives will end. And why is it so hard when things go against you? If it's imposed by nature, accept it gladly and stop fighting.

And if not, work out what your own nature requires and aim at that, even if it brings you

no glory. None of us is forbidden to pursue our own good. My gosh, to live a good life, we all have the potential

for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference, dare I say social media,

dare I say what other people think, dare I think, dare I say the approval of that stranger

that you seem to care about because we've all cared about that random stranger online or maybe

in our work at our office somewhere. Do we have to always ascribe meaning? Do we always need to have

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