Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you know what to me hurts the most if I'm feeling unhappy, if I'm feeling frustrated,

if I'm feeling just down on myself for whatever reason?

The thing that hurts the most isn't

necessarily a betrayal by anybody else or anything that's happening outside of me. It's a feeling of

ooh, I actively participated in this. It's because I didn't read that properly or it's because I had

one drink too many, hence the hangover.

Or it's because maybe I go to the doctor and I get some type of unwanted feedback because I know I

haven't been taking care of myself. I would say no affliction hurts us more than ones that we

actively participate in. And I've got this moral today, this fable with

an excellent moral today, it's called the eagle and the arrow that I'm about to read to you.

An eagle sat on a lofty rock watching the movements of a hair whom he sought to make his prey. An archer who saw him

from a place of concealment took an accurate aim and wounded him mortally. The eagle gave one look

at the arrow that had ended his heart and saw in that single glance at its feathers had been

furnished by himself. It's a double grief to me,

he exclaimed, that I should perish by an arrow feathered by my own wings. A consciousness of

misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness. You know that feeling when you're like,

oh, I knew I shouldn't have done that. I knew I shouldn't have hired that person. I knew I shouldn't

have picked up that vape. I knew I shouldn't have trusted him or her so quickly. I knew it. I knew it.

There is nothing than hurts more than the grievances that we

cause ourselves, our selves. It hurts most when we cause our own pain. You know, when I was listening

to Jay-Z being interviewed by David Letterman on that show, my next guest, I think it was on Netflix. He said that

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