Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I have something for you today from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, written over 2,000 years ago, my friends,

if you have the book Meditations, it's wonderful.

And the passage that I'm going to read to you is on page 112.

Okay, my friends, this is a list of items that Aurelius put together as his wisdom.

And there is so much here. Maybe I will dive into more

over the coming days and weeks. But this is what I wanted to read to you today as you explore

this hopefully lovely peaceful time of the year. You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind, things that only exist

there and clear out space for yourself. By comprehending the scale of the world, by contemplating

infinite time, by thinking of the speed with which things change, each part

of everything, the narrow space between our birth and death, the infinite time before,

and the equally unbounded time that follows.

To me, this is so soothing.

Think about the junk that exists in your mind that just pales in insignificance.

Looks ridiculous compared to the scale of the world, infinite time.

Our very limited time here on planet Earth, the speed with

which things change, the unbounded time that will follow once we cease to exist. My friends, I've

often joked that, you know, I might be known as a life coach, but I swear I'm a perspective

coach. I just bring it straight back to the reality of who we are, why we're here, how long

it lasts, and what really matters. Oralius says that another part of meditations, whatever it is

that you're doing today, do you fear death because you won't be able to keep doing this? Meaning whatever it is that you're doing today, do you fear death because you won't be able to keep doing

this? Meaning whatever it is that you're doing? It gets very clear when we start thinking about

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