We all want to feel ALIVE!  To be thrilled.  To feel pure joy.
The simplest way to feel alive is to look around, take in all your senses bring you, let go of negative judgments - of wanting more or different - and seek and find joy and gratitude in the moment.

Self-righteousness kills joy.  If we take responsibility for all of our decisions and judgments - if we strive to bring unconscious judgments and impulses into consciousness and keep only those which serve our most important values - self-righteousness ebbs.  Try it.  I believe you'll see what I mean.