Inner space that makes it livable.

We join spokes together in a wheel,but it is the center holethat makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot,but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house,but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being,but non-being is what we use.chapter eleven of the Tao Te Chingby Lao Tsufrom a lovely translation by Stephen Mitchellimage - Andrew Rollinger

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.

chapter eleven of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu from a lovely translation by Stephen Mitchell

Happy Monday!

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