It's the fact that your body and your personality are not God. God is you. But you can't say you are God just as the ocean is all the waves, but you can't say one wave is the ocean. And so you manifest God in a way that you don't understand. Man himself is the image of God, but he doesn't see that image in himself. And you need to meditate, and there will come your answer, not looking in the mirror.

Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy.