Is there a "wrong" path?

[JustLikeYou]

For what it's worth, my usage of "heart" and "mind" was meant to be more intuitive than precise in its reference. That is, I was using these terms in their common-sense usage, not as technical terms for energy nexi. My point was that a belief about which action is right will not guarantee the feeling that this action is right. Many times I have done what I thought was right, but was shaking and sweating the whole time as my heart told me it was wrong, despite the convincing arguments of my mind.

I admit I do not understand your conception of balancing. If a tight-rope walker is leaning too far in one direction, it will do them no good to go equally as far in the other direction.

A tightrope cannot be walked without already having nearly perfect balance. The straight and narrow path is like walking a tightrope, but the act of balancing often has broader sweeps and and longer deviations than the metaphor of a tightrope will allow. So it may be helpful to think of balance as a swinging pendulum. Thus, to go in one extreme necessitates an experience of (nearly) the opposite extreme in order to balance the movement. The cycle will continue repeating in smaller and smaller extremes until near balance is struck. Once the pendulum has come to rest, the seeker can take another step along the tightrope.