The Power

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” 

 -René Descartes

Blake

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” 

― William Blake

A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow! 

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow-

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream; 

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone? 

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream...

-Edgar Allan Poe

Lao Tzu

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.