Where is the balance between all those?  I suppose that is part of this whole adventure of being human.  Having a desire by itself is not bad, but grasping and clutching to one certainly doesn’t work.  Setting intentions is the core of manifesting a life, and the next moment, but outpicturing the results leads to disappointed expectations and usually resentments.  Even if they are towards myself for believing in some myth.

But dreams without a plan are just wishes.

Peace is certainly every step, and action is the hallmark of life.  Movement, growth, survival all means to act.  Meditation is a break and an anchor, but even the ascetic must eventually eat or they die.  Death is ok, but it is not life.

Back and forth, here and there, up and down, now and then.  Swinging through the polarities of human life.