Allow Yourself to Rest - Daily Wisdom #5

Welcome back to daily wisdom.

Think about what happens when you finally have a free afternoon. The kind that arrives unplanned, when a meeting cancels or a task finishes early. For most of us, the first reaction is not relief. It is unease.

The Taoist sages would have recognized this anxiety immediately. They wrote often about the danger of excessive doing, of constant striving, of treating one's own life like a problem to be solved.

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