Quoting Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Avery, Ch. You Are a Masterpiece in the Making, p. 87, 2016

stress and anxiety arise from the attempt to control what is fundamentally impermanent and unable to be controlled. We try to control the moment, which results in our feeling that what is happening should not be happening. So much of what causes heartache is our wanting things to be different than they are.

— Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Avery, Ch. You Are a Masterpiece in the Making, p. 87, 2016

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