“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In between excellent health and death through disease, in between wealth and perhaps gluttony, and poverty and starvation, in between a glittering social existence, the comfort of a family, and the utter loneliness of isolation, there are literally infinite variations and gradations of behavior, according to individual differences and prerogatives. Most of this refers to your question, and is by way of giving you a fuller explanation.

Rest your fingers.... Ruburt’s particular case is rather clear and exaggerated in that respect. It is not murky at all. I have given this material in the past. He thought of his father—he thought of his father—as spontaneous, free, and undisciplined, as somewhat stupid and somewhat dangerous. He thought of his mother as possessing a strong will. His mother was authoritative to a degree. His father was lax. He feared his mother far more, however, and he tried to temper his own behavior, to ally the intuitions and the intellect or will.

That “well-balanced life” might well be considered a slow death to our risk seeker, and no moral judgment can be placed on such behavior.