We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is the space where there is nothing that the usefulness
of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness
of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the
usefulness of the house depends.
Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is, so we should
recognize the usefulness of what is not.
Nothing under heaven is more yielding than water;
But when it attacks things hard and resistant,
There is not one of them that can prevail,
That the yielding conquers the resistant
And the soft conquers the heart
Is a fact known by all men,
But utilize by none.
The highest good is like that of water,
The goodness of water is that it benefits the ten thousand creatures,
Yet itself does not scramble for attention,
But is content with places that man disdain,
It is this that makes water so near to the Way.
When he is born, men is soft and weak;
In death, he becomes stiff and hard.
The ten thousand creatures and plants and trees
Are supple and soft in life,
But brittle and dry in death.
Truly, to be stiff and hard is the way of death;
To be soft and supple is the way of life.
Therefore, the weapon that is too hard will be broken,
And the tree with the hardest wood will be cut down first.
Truly, the hard and strong are cast down,
While the soft and weak rise the top.
~Lao Tze’s Quotes
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