The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. - Ram Dass

When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn’t the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You’ll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.

There are a number of bogeymen that accompany us into adulthood. The biggest one is this: “I’ll be old and alone with no mind, and when I die I’ll be alone, adrift, isolated in a cold, dark universe.” The Ego is the only part of us that believes this.

"What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at — the projection of the clingings of our minds."