Very, very interesting thread.
I have often thought along that way.
Perhaps every kind of "truth" calls for its own form of "stillness"; there is some activity to cease, drop or give up, in order to reach it -- or, rather, to be reached by it.
In many ways understanding is the opposite of doing.
(As Simone Weil put it, attention has nothing to do with knitting one's eyebrows.)
In a somewhat different direction, I wonder if anyone ever does anything else than following the path of least resistance. I mean his or her path of least resistance in a given situation and stage in life. So-called "heroes" and "cowards" alike. Really, could we ever have done anything else than what we have done, step by step, in the same sequence of circumstances?
Maybe there is not much difference between metaphysics and physics. If we knew everybody's moral mass and movement maybe we'd know the course anybody will take -- and "free will" would be nothing but another word for our ignorance of too many parameters.