It starts with the recognition of joy in your own heart. This involves learning to look past the misery others want to drag you into and rising above the level of immaturity of the culture around you.

True joy is not a feeling to be chased, but a way of being in the world. It’s not miring yourself in the minutia of petty daily nuisance, but appreciating all of what life has to offer.

It’s also a bigger vision of the world.

In fact, it’s a vision that extends beyond this world. It’s a vision that extends into deep time and putting yourself into the river of cosmic history—we are merely at one point in a 13.8 billion year history.

It’s a vision that is hard earned when the passage of time you have here on Earth comes frighteningly close to its end.

Once you see it, you recognize how foolish we must look at items we consider to be issues.

You recognize the joy in each moment.

And then you can’t help but pass that along to others.