The 7 Noble Pursuits

This is your inner calm.

You can find it in nature, but you also nurture it yourself: by tidying up, taking care of your mind and your heart, saying thank you, forgiving others, accepting what has passed and who you are, staying genuinely true to yourself and aligning with your moral standards. 

It is an unbroken, multi-nodal dialogue between you and your surroundings.

You build it by valuing life, cultivating connections through compassion and love, opening yourself up through vulnerability, attaching securely to other secure people, finding belonging and shepherding it for others by striving for equality. 

It's the drive, it's what keeps you alive.

You can find it in other people, places and things — or by simply opening doors and holding them open for others. 

Wisdom is more than just the accumulation of knowledge, it is the thoughtful and enlightened application of it. 

You can find it by conquering the demons that keep you paralyzed, small and dependent, by acquiring enough capital to survive and achieve stability, by expressing yourself.