Really excellent. I highlighted much. I was going to say you can tell from my highlights how much this resonated with me but Medium long ago got rid of the easy ability to see the name of each person who has highlighted.
I smiled when you discussed the human-spirit duality and said "spirits in the material world." I titled a prompt exactly that in July 2021, asking about peoples thoughts on the duality, which I answered myself here: https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-human-spirit-duality-e456c0729e99
For you or others who don't want to click into the full story, regarding balance I wrote: "There are human wants and soul wants. A life will be harmonious when those two are aligned. Life’s purpose is to learn and one aspect is learning how to satisfy the human wants while not offending the soul’s spirituality."
and concluded with "Recently I had this realization about the human-soul duality — the goals of the human and the goals of the soul may be, from the human perspective, irreconcilable. Humans want nothing but happiness but perhaps the soul came here to experience the opposite so that it can learn to guide other humans when it is not incarnated and is assigned as a spirit guide or to some other work in heaven."