Are there any substitutes for having inner peace?

You treat the purpose given by a creator as extraneous or arbitrary, something the creator just "made up" for you and imposed on you, but in fact his purpose would be part of the very created thing he would create, not at all subjective but the very definition of objective. {Leaving the hypothetical for the Christian context for a moment, If we are made in the image of God, some part of us is always seeking God. It's part of us, it's not imposed on us. It's complex because of the Fall, which buried this part of us that seeks God and brought out our own desire to be little gods lording it over life, which I add merely to explain why we often don't experience this yearning after God, or we misapply it in the wrong directions.}