‘Becoming a peaceful warrior’ was the theme of the first of four lectures of the ‘The search for the heroic being’ cycle proposed by New Acropolis in the Space Mouneyra of Bordeaux. Before an audience of more than 80 people, Olivier Larrègle, led us to reflect on how to attain greater serenity and experience well-being promoting transformations needed to find the ‘high city’ in oneself.