Michael Singer said this quote

The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.

~ Michael Singer

You said to your mind, I want everyone to like me. I don't want anyone to speak badly of me. I want everything I say and do to be acceptable and pleasing to everyone. I don't want anyone to hurt me. I don't want anything to happen that I don't like. And I want everything to happen that I do like. Then you said, Now mind, figure out how to make every one of these things a reality, even if you have to think about it day and night. And of course your mind said, I'm on the job, I will work on it constantly.

~ Michael Singer

You are not your thoughts, you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions, you feelemotions. You are not your body, you look at it in the mirror and experience this world through its eyes and ears. You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all these inner and outer things.

~ Michael Singer

What you end up experiencing is really a personal presentation of the world according to you, rather than the stark, unfiltered experience of what is really out there. This mental manipulation of the outer experience allows you to buffer reality as it comes in.

~ Michael Singer