Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Hello my friend.

What a delight to be with you right here right now.

I've actually just been meditating this morning on my blessings, which is an exercise I love to do once a day, twice a day, whenever I want to, whenever I also particularly

feel like I need to have a sense of perspective and give myself an emotional boost.

And I want to let you know that you are such a huge blessing in my life, having you tune in and

listen.

Thank you. Across the waves, I'm sending you my love and a big hug.

Okay, well, today's episode.

As I shared in a couple of earlier episodes, I've been reading and I'm in the process of re-reading Anthony de Mello's book

Awareness. It's a great book but I say you've got to be ready for it because it

really does give you a bit of a smack down in terms of your beliefs coming back to reality

how we cause our own suffering.

He says essentially that anyone who is awake is not suffering because they're not arguing with reality.

And there's this passage that I came across once again in my reread today

and I thought I'm going to read this out because I think it's fantastic. It gives us

absolute food for thoughts and maybe if there's someone in your life who you

wish to change you could start to look at it a bit differently after I

share this passage with you.

Sometimes in self-coaching society I ask the question, you know, how many people need a change in order for you to be happy?

And you know, we start counting all my husband, my sister, my boss, my coworker, my competitor, the lady down the street who's really crabby. We can start

really piling up people in our mind who we wish to change or who we think need to change before we can start to

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