Integration: Goal or Part of the Process?

I used to assume (as recently as when I started this blog) that an integrated life was a goal to achieve (if one was not there, yet) in order to be healthy and wise and ready to go forth. That fits the old Western paradigm of mechanistic thought (we're not working, we get fixed, then we're OK). It just doesn't fit reality. Integration is part of a process of growth, which is the unfolding of life, itself. That unfolding ends, so far as we know, only with the end of one's life. One can, however, get waylaid, sidetracked or just plain stuck along the way.