All joy that comes from your subjective place in space and time, dispense with it. This joy will come and go, beyond your control, and is not to be relied upon.

Learn to focus on the joys of the objective world—the sun rising, the grass growing, people talking. Anything that will remain the same for as long as you live. But even those examples are not truly objective. They are subjective insofar as they depend upon your sight to see and your ears to hear.

All that is truly objective is your Consciousness—that which remains, even when you rise up and out of your subjective ego. It is to your Consciousness, regardless of what fills it, that your joy should be attached.