Thirty spokes
Share one hub.

Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand, and you will have use of the cart. Knead clay in order to make a vessel. Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand, and you will have use of the vessel. Cut out the doors and windows in order to make a room. Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand, and you will have use of the room.

Thus what we gain is Something, yet it is by virtue of
Nothing that this can be put to use.

—Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching, Verse XI
Translated by D.C. Lau

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