Ahh, I see you turned your comment on Joseph's post into a story. 👍

With respect to the lines I highlighted here, I've said, "I seek contentment, which is not settling but a hopefully high-altitude baseline, coming from within and connection to without. It doesn’t stem from the acquisition of attachments but awareness of connection to the world and the universe as a living, breathing, and heart-beating organism and from alignment of mind and soul and discerning my why — my drive — from discovering who I am at my core."

Since I wrote those words over four years ago, I've started mentioning serenity instead of contentment, because it doesn't have the negative connotation of settling that people read into contentment.

I like your word, balance.

Wholeness is another good word for the same concept. I saw another writer use it recently. https://medium.com/wholistique/the-goal-isnt-happiness-but-wholeness-f4fd40b9750b