While striving with intensity to do our inner work we must, at the very same time, let go and relax. There are several reasons why this paradox springs into existence. Conscious awareness can only focus on one thing at a time. We cannot force holistic insights to come to us. We can only hope to receive them.
Insights come as gifts.
We do not create them. The actual gift, the insight itself, we cannot cause to come into our consciousness. This is beyond us. Without it, the thousand tiny gates of the mind will not swing free. Perhaps fortunately for humankind, the gifts of real wisdom insight cannot be forced into existence by manipulation.