if you saw your own face in the clouds, what use is it? The best place to look for yourself is within. Not in some old book or an apparition forming out of nature. You have a body, you have a mind, you have feelings and thoughts, but you are not these things. You merely have an attachment to them. You are a mortal character being played out by your soul. Your senses are filters put on your soul's sense of awareness. They aren't real. They're symbols used to express greater truths. All we experience in this universe are lessons for the soul which has no other way of experiencing them. This is a Dream world. You play a dream character. Your character is awake. Your Soul is asleep. That's the REAL you. Once you wake up, Life becomes a lucid dream.
"Just as when you are half awake and can see a dream, and know you are dreaming, and yet are apart from it, that is how God feels this universe. On one side he is awake, and on another side he is dreaming this universe. And that is how you should look upon this world. Then you will know why he created it, and will not ascribe these dream conditions to your soul. If you pass through a nightmare, you know that is no more than a bad dream. If you can live in the world in that consciousness, you will not suffer.
You won't mind then, because you will know you are dreaming. Do not pay undue attention to the passing scenes of life. You are the immortal self (consciousness) living only temporarily in a dream that is sometimes (imagined) to be a nightmare. That is the higher philosophy (and truth) of the mystics." -- Yogananda