A person's true joy comes from doing what humans are meant to do. What belongs to us most is this: be kind to other people, ignore bodily desires, see through false thoughts, and think about the universe and what happens in it. When you think this way, notice three things. First, look at what seems to cause events. Second, remember the original cause - God, who starts everything that happens. Third, think about the people around you and how this knowledge can help them.
The true joy of a man, is to do that which properly belongs unto a man. That which is most proper unto a man, is, first, to be kindly affected towards them that are of the same kind and nature as he is himself to contemn all sensual motions and appetites, to discern rightly all plausible fancies and imaginations, to contemplate the nature of the universe; both it, and things that are done in it. In which kind of contemplation three several relations are to be observed The first, to the apparent secondary cause. The Second to the first original cause, God, from whom originally proceeds whatsoever doth happen in the world. The third and last, to them that we live and converse with: what use may be made of it, to their use and benefit.