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[BluesMan]

Originally Posted by Racoon

Chapter 11 of Tao Te Ching:

Thirty spokes on a cartwheel
Go towards the hub that is the centre

- But look, there is nothing at the centre
and that is precisely why it works!

If you mould a cup, you have to make a hollow:
it is the emptiness within that makes it useful.

In a house or room, it is the empty spaces
- the doors, the windows - that make it useable.
They all use what they are made of
to do what they do,

but without their nothingness they would be nothing.

One of my favorites.