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  • A Pyjama Letter Mr. Curly on the importance of rest in a letter to Vasco Pyjama, by Michael Leunig.
  • The Mountain: Rest according to the I Ching

The I Ching or ancient chinese Book of Changes offers a reflection on good rest (body and mind) through hexagram 52, Keeping still, or “The Mountain” (the trigram representing the mountain, which is still, is repeated): “The Book of Changes holds that rest is merely a state of polarity that always posits movement as its complement” and “True quiet means keeping still when the time has come to keep still, and going forward when the time has come to go forward. In this way rest and movement are in agreement with the demands of the time, and thus there is light in life.”

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