Reflection for February 2005

         

“ 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.”

                          --Tao Te Ching


                          
                                          
           

Monthly Practice:

bulletWe use materials and techniques to make a wheel, a pot or a house yet what makes them useful is not their form, but the space that their forms defines and creates. Use the month of February to value the things that we cannot see, as much as we value what we do see.

bulletWhat is the inner space that makes it livable in my home, organization or relationship?

 
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