The ultimate quest is happiness

Ultimate happiness = security
Ultimate security = knowledge
Ultimate knowledge = experience
Ultimate experience = being
Ultimate being = being everything
Being everything = being nothing

Hosseini's 7 Steps to Wisdom and Inner Peace offer wise words of wisdom on how to achieve the ultimate state of being and salvation. Finding salvation within begins with the ultimate quest - the path to achieving happiness. In "Travel Within", Hosseini explains that once ultimate happiness is reached, the next step is to achieve ultimate security (ultimate happiness = security). Once we are secure in our lives we have unlocked the door to expanding our awareness and human consciousness, which inevitably leads to increased knowledge. The increase in knowledge includes seeing the connectivity of everything in the universe including ourselves, plants, animals, and all other objects.

With the knowledge of the universe's connectivity we can experience a higher level of awareness, leading to the next step, ultimate experience (ultimate knowledge = experience). By experiencing everything as one, we have reached a higher level; the level of ultimate being (ultimate knowledge = ultimate being). In achieving the ultimate being, a person can become part of the interconnectedness of every other being and thing on this earth and universe. This leads to the next step and the words of wisdom that ultimate being = being everything. Spiritual philosophy argues that with being everything, we are indefinable, far-reaching and all-knowing. Since being everything cannot be defined as one particular thing, we are also nothing (being everything = being nothing). Ironically, the ultimate plan of salvation in Hosseini's words of wisdom requires us to be both everything and nothing simultaneously. Only then can salvation, the ultimate goal of oneness, be achieved.