usefulness from what is not there

01.02.19

Shape clay into a vessel;

It is the space within that makes it useful.


Cut doors and windows for a room;


It is the holes which make it useful.


Therefore benefit comes from what is there;


Usefulness from what is not there.
—Lao Tzu
from Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11

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