Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that calmness and stillness allow one's true self to emerge.
Laozi emphasizes the importance of stillness and quieting the mind in order to connect with one's true essence. In a world filled with distractions and incessant activity, taking time to stop and reflect can lead to profound self-awareness and the discovery of one's integral nature, which is often obscured by busyness and restlessness.
In practice
During a meditation retreat, I reminded everyone that 'Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.'
If you understand others you are smart._x000D_ If you understand yourself you are illuminated._x000D_ If you overcome others you are powerful._x000D_ If you overcome yourself you have strength._x000D_ If you know how to be satisfied you are rich._x000D_ If you can act with vigor, you have a will._x000D_ If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting._x000D_ If you die without loss, you are eternal.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it.
It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.
George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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