If others could tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and perfection, they must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for every that happens to you. For it is certain that whatever calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing . . .
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.