Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Don't you feel tired sometimes when it feels like the world always requires an opinion on everything,

like we have to deem something as good or bad or right or wrong or positive or negative. I can tell you I stopped believing I needed an

opinion on a lot of things especially things I don't even understand or care too much about a long time ago, and it's

very freedom giving.

And I want to read a quote from the book Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, where he speaks about this, about not having an opinion.

Here is the quote directly.

We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind.

I want to repeat that actually.

We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind.

The second part of that quote, not letting it upset our state of mind is really the important thing here, isn't it?

For example, a friend of mine contacted me recently, she forwarded me this Instagram post of someone who was selected

for this big media opportunity and she really thought that it should be her right

they're both in the like the fitness world and and I was like oh okay and she's

like what do you think and I'm like I don't really think anything I'm like I don't

think this is good bad like it doesn't really mean anything for you

lots of good things happen for you too I don't really have an opinion on this

maybe you should try not having an opinion on this.

Because think about where so much of our suffering comes from,

right?

It's from deeming something, it's having an opinion about something

and that opinion often isn't positive. Right, the opinion is. about something

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