Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I heard this spiritual teacher who I love say this recently and I just thought, oh,

this speaks so much to the truth that joy is our birthright. Joy is our birthright.

This I feel, I know that it's true. Look at children before they learn a lot of things about

the world and how terrible and scary it is and unfair. Look at their natural state.

Laughing, happy, curious, this way, that way. It's fascinating, isn't it? Joy is our birthright.

I think I first heard Wayne Dyer say that years ago and I was like, yes, this is true.

But then I heard this other spiritual teacher, I think he's called Muji, M-O-O-J-I.

I've been listening to him on YouTube recently.

And he said this, you don't need a reason to be happy, but you do need a reason to be sad. And I thought that was powerful. Think about it.

You don't need a reason to be happy. This is why meditators, I think, generally have this sense

of contentment, not because they're thinking or focusing or visualizing. They're just clearing

their mind. They're coming

back to their own neutral base, their base living, which brings happiness, brings peace,

brings its own contentment. You don't need a reason to be happy. I'll tell you, I wake up

each morning in a good mood. Unless I'm, like, sick or maybe really

tired, I don't know, maybe hungover. But actually, even then, I can still be in a good mood.

I can wake up in this place of feeling good until, oh, pick up the phone, oh, see what's going on

in the world, oh, have a conversation with

someone who wants to tell me about all the terrible things. You don't need a reason to be happy,

but you do need a reason to be sad, right? We can think, oh, I'm sad because of this, I'm sad

because of that, I'm sad because I'm worried about X, I'm sad because of anxiety around.

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