Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you have compassion for strangers?

Do you ever just hear someone's story or find out about somebody on social media,

or even perhaps meet a stranger somewhere in your everyday life.

They tell you a bit about them, maybe what they're going through,

or you just observe what they're going through.

And you have so much compassion, you're like, gosh, how do I show up?

How can I help? Is there anything I can do your

heart just expands and you want to be of service or be of use or be helpful somehow.

I love that right? I love the compassion that human beings feel for each other,

especially humans that we don't know. Even humans that we never meet. I see how people show up donate give what they can online

when they see different world events happening it's incredible and it is truly a

beautiful part of us as human beings right our? Our nature, the core of who we are is love.

And when that love is in action, it flows through us, oh, it's an incredible thing.

But I have a follow-up. It's an incredible thing.

But I have a follow-up question for this today.

I've noticed that compassion for strangers can come really easily, And maybe when it comes to compassion for people closest to us,

it feels a little harder. We know more of the picture. We've maybe been slighted or hurt or felt maybe even

oppressed or angry or sad somehow because of someone in your life's actions towards you or

towards themselves or towards something. Compassion for strangers can feel easy

because there's a space between us.

But people that we love, sometimes I know that we're quick to almost, not even consciously,

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