As a human being, you come with the whole range of possibilities – from the deepest hell to the highest states within yourself. It is up to you which one you choose to explore.
When someone else can make you happy or unhappy, is it not the worst kind of slavery. To know that the source of all human experience is within is liberation.
If you have a global identity, your intellect will function for everyone’s wellbeing. You will not act out of individual ambition but out of a larger vision for everything.
In the most basic form, misery means you are thinking or feeling something you do not like. Joy means what you like is happening in your thought and emotion.