This very moment is the perfect teacher, it is always with us, it is the most profound instruction we can receive. Awareness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom; it is available in each moment of our ordinary lives.
If we feel out of sorts, it could be a variety of things: something what we ate, our mind is upset or some external event. Look at the way you are eating, your mind with its habits, outer environment or social change, then arrange your life so that it comes back into balance.
Let go of all desires, detach yourself from all things, dissolve all duality, the idea of good and bad, beautiful and ugly, etc.; practice undiscriminating virtue to everything and everybody. These practices are the beginning of liberation and a harmonious oneness with the universe.
True joy comes from within, but we are tempted by diversions that come streaming in from without. Build your inner stability and strength, then amusements and outside indulgences will not be tempting. Do not depend on external influences to control your life.
Quote: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. Rumi