In Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Quit Smoking, Carr and his students describe how quitting smoking can appear difficult - even being built up as a momentous task by anti-smoking campaigns. However, once one proceeds with correct understanding, the act and habit become as simple as remembering to park in a new parking space.
Many aspects of our lives are like this. We can struggle to give things up, laboring under false knowledge - and continuing to fight against it.
Or we can take up truth, and find simplicity.