Gospel of Philip and Gospel of Thomas quotes explore explore movement and rest as simultaneous.

Yeshua said:
If they ask you from where you come, say:
We were born of the Light, there where Light is born of Light.
It holds true and is revealed within their image.
If they ask you who you are, say:
We are its children, the beloved of the Father, the Living One.
If they ask you what is the sign of the Father in you, say:
It is movement and it is repose.
Gospel of Thomas, Logion 50, LeLoup

Born in Repose

We are born of Light,
at its source.
We are movement,
and we are repose.

The Breath leads all things
to their repose,
with harmony in all.
Good and evil, right and left,
find repose within.

Our works are made with effort,
and our children in repose.
What comes forth in repose is more real
than our striving.

We are movement,
and we are repose.

Essence keeps the mountain’s pace,
unseen as motion at all.
Personality is like the weather,
seen at noon, gone by evening.

Movement and rest are simultaneous.
When the two are made one,
say to the mountain, Move! —
and it says, thank you for noticing.

We are movement,
and we are repose.

Authentic beings are who
they have always been,
never dying and never quite appearing —
what grandeur.

What you wait for
has already come.
Darkness conceals, and Light reveals,
those who are,
were,
and will be.

William Britten

People work with tame animals to plow their fields, and thus are able to feed themselves and the animals, whether tame or wild.
So it is with realized Human Beings, who work with energies that obey them.
They prepare all things to come into being. Thus everything awakens, and is redeemed: good and evil, right and left.
The Breath leads all things to their repose, it aligns the energies: the obedient, the wild, and the solitary ones. It gathers them together, so that they are no longer dispersed.
Gospel of Philip, Saying 40, LeLoup 

The works of humans come from their power; this is why they are called energies [dunamis]. Their children are born from their repose [anapausis];
their power is manifested in their works, and their repose in their children.
This is an image—humans produce their works with effort, and their children in repose.
Gospel of Philip, Saying 86, LeLoup 

In this world slaves serve those who are free; in the kingdom of heaven those who are free will serve slaves; those who are born in the bridal chamber are in repose. They need nothing else; contemplation suffices them.
Gospel of Philip, Saying 87, LeLoup 

“Active stillness. Oxymorons. But, the heart gets them immediately. That’s feeling. That’s the feeling level. The active stillness of movement. Yeah. Exactly so.” — Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2016 Three-centered Knowing, 55:46, 21-Friday Morning Teaching

Yeshua said:
When you make the two into One, you will be a Son of Man.
And when you say:
Mountain, move!
It will move.
Gospel of Thomas, Logion 106, LeLoup

Yeshua said:
When you see your true likeness, you rejoice.
But when you see your icons, those that were before you existed, and that never die and never manifest, what grandeur!
Gospel of Thomas, Logion 84, LeLoup

When a blind man and one who sees are both in the dark, there is no difference between them; but when they both come into the light, one sees it, and the other remains in darkness.
The Teacher said, “Blessed are those who are before existing; for those who are were, and will be.”
Gospel of Philip, Sayings 56-57, LeLoup 

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Jean-Yves LeLoup, Gospel of Philip, (Inner Traditions: 2004)

Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Thomas, Inner Traditions, 2005

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