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# Restless
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/restless/
- Published: 2024-11-16T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-04T21:23:53.000Z
- Description: If the nature of the mind is restlessness, what are we to do? 🌀
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Music, Acceptance, Consciousness, Cycling, Expectations, MECHANICS, Focus, Gratitude, Identity, Presence, Psychology, Thought realisation, #audio, Video

Saturdays I generally find myself washing the bike and doing any required maintenance, prior to Sunday’s big ride.

I don’t know why, but I’ve got into the habit of listening to New Order while I do so. It is my bike-maintenance music.

Minds, eh? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Anyway, there’s a track called *Restless*, and I think it’s just the perfect word for describing the mind.

Because it never rests, does it? You can be having a perfectly lovely, productive, chilled, enjoyable moment, just living your life, and the mind’s all like,

> 📦🗣️: *Whoa, hang on there now, fellah! This could definitely be better. Surely?*

And off it goes.

It just won’t rest.

That’s what the song is all about:

### RESTLESS

> *What can you buy that lifts a heavy heart up to the sky?* 
> *What makes your day?* 
> *What miracle of life has come to stay?*

> *I want a nice car. A girlfriend who’s as pretty as a star.* 
> *I want respect. As much—as much!—as I can get.*

> *But how much do you need?* 
> *How much, how much do you need?*

> *Restless. I feel so restless.*

It's a great song, you can have a listen to it here:

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New Order - Restless (YouTube Audio)

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So, what’s the answer to this eternal restlessness?

- **Give it what it wants?** *(I think you’ll find, it’ll only ever want more. It’s restless, see?)*
- **Try and get it to shut up?** *(Ha! Good luck with that. Its nature is restlessness, so fat chance!)*

No, the answer is to see that it is simply of no concern to You. The only thing that’s ever concerned about the needy bleatings of a mind… is a mind itself.

(Minds are pretty dim like that - they can’t see that they're the source of their own restlessness 🙄)

**You**, on the other hand, are not restless.

(Note that in the lyric here, he doesn’t say “I *am* so restless” – it’s just an experience he’s having.)

Your [TRUE NATURE](https://www.gilespcroft.com/tag/true-nature/) is peace. Presence.

Lovely, productive, chilled and enjoyable – that’s You, that is. You can’t escape that.

And the way out? Is to **quit the game**.

We *witness* the restlessness of the mind, shrug our shoulders, and get on with the real job of living a life of inner peace.

Enjoy your Saturday!

💟

Giles

p.s. You can listen to the whole album for free on YouTube here:

Visit New Order's YouTube Channel to listen to ****Music Complete**