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		DJohnBenton on July 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Being Bored Is Good Like the Tao Te Ching passage: Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the centre hole that makes it useful. 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 profit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.

rwnspace on July 13, 2019 [–]

I find this passage resonates most when drawn against my living relationship with the rest of the text.

As for the thread, a very straightforward quote:

~

So the unwanting soul

sees what's hidden,

and the ever-wanting soul

sees only what it wants.

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