I agree with everything you've shared here but would like to address the sentence above. If something provokes a reaction in you that is out of proportion to the act itself, then that's meant as a learning experience. If that is acted on, rather than ignored, inner peace will become even easier to live in and I believe that is a necessary to a good life, I wrote something on that idea- https://medium.com/illumination-curated/the-universal-mirror-and-how-it-can-help-you-live-a-better-life-d0de9b7b5e66