Are there any substitutes for having inner peace?

Ahem, excuse me? Do you realise how conceited you sound? What makes YOU the arbiter what what constitutes self fulfillment? Not everyone seeks (or needs) your brand of fulfillment.Like a previous poster said, I find fulfillment in this life on the assumption that when I'm dead it's game over.Edited by RickJB, : No reason given.

Well not that assumption alone! I meant to say:"I find fulfillment in this life and accept that when I'm dead it's game over." Heh, so do I. That's life! We're just a speck of inconsequential life in a vast universe.In any case, any "meanings" we do come up with will be superceded by the ideas (and sciences, perhaps) of future generations...Ever hear Monty Python's "Galaxy Song"?---------------------------------------------------
Galaxy Song by Monty Python"Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough""Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of a galaxy we call the Milky Way""Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars, it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side
It bulges in the middle,16,000 lightyears thick but out by us it's just 3,000 lightyears wide
We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe""The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure how amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space coz there's bugger all down here on Earth"