Often used metaphorically to describe a balance in abstract concepts.

Metaphorical Use

It refers to balance in ideas or situations, not physical objects.

Non-physical Balance

Usually describes a desirable balance that people work to attain.

Achievement Desire

Describes an active effort to create balance, not a passive state.

Active Process

Implies an initial state of inequality that is being addressed.

Inequality Addressing

Indicates that a person or group is intentionally adjusting factors to balance them.

Requires Agency

 They go through life like sailboats tacking into the wind -- wanting to get close to people, but not really having the models of how to do that. And so this is one skill of how to hoover up knowledge, one from another. A second skill is equipoise,

David Brooks: The social...

 help in the digestion of essential nutrients and they protect you against certain diseases but what will come in the future are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species or are we destined to become something

Equipoise