11.
We join the spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move
We shape the clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
from
"Tao te Ching" by Lao Tzu
translation by Stephen Mitchell
Harper Perennial Books, 1988
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