Можно ли достичь, чтобы радость была обычным состоянием....

Is it possible to achieve that joy was an ordinary state. L. L. thinks it is possible. Troubles at nine tenths are imaginary; they come from envy, representing oneself in the place of another, or from bitterness when imagining a possible future. But all this is actually not real. A man leaves without galoshes, then it seems to him that it will rain, and he is already upset. But if it does, then in fact there is no trouble in this, or it is negligible. Joy is at hand, but to feel it, you need to throw off the habits that impede this, to go through some asceticism. He will easily shake off all troubles, like dust from clothes - a modern saint, he will always be joyful, although not cheerful. And even pain is not an obstacle here. Is the pain from cologne after shaving (N. M. noticed) not one of the most acute pains? But we know that it is not worth paying attention to, and we do not notice it ... Joy and grief are not opposites, and indifference is not the middle between them, just as there is no middle between the whole and the cracked. Joy is normal.


(Lipavsky. Conversations)