Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or happy. Outward circumstances are always neutral. They seem to be happy or sad according to the happy or sad attitudes of the mind.

You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is not vital. You need to learn what is important and what is not important. You need to understand what will move you upwards and onwards, and what will hinder you from traveling the higher path.

But what is your true self is the God within you who became you, and when you realize that you are not yourself but you are he, then you discover that you and he are one, just as Jesus said. Jesus was a great master, and he had great teachings for the world, and when it says in the Bible, "All those who received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God."

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.