#11 Tao te Ching

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the  wagon move.

We shape 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
translated by Stephen Mitchell
HarperPerennial, 1988