You might appreciate my essay, https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-human-spirit-duality-e456c0729e99, which concludes we are neither humans seeking spiritual experiences nor spirits seeking human experiences. We are simultaneously and inseparably both.

This poem of mine also came to mind while I enjoyed your piece: https://medium.com/channspirations/lifes-contradictions-and-paradoxes-8c99c537a3c0