This is the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching I ever read, and it totally blew my mind.

Thirty spokes join to form the hub of the wheel, but it is the emptiness in the center that makes the wheel useful, where you may fit the axle.

Clay can be shaped to form a pot, but it is the emptiness of the pot that is of use.

Doors and windows are cut into the walls of a house, for it is the open emptiness that lets you dwell therein.

I’m still pondering its applicability to my current state. I feel like there’s something I’m supposed to learn from this that I haven’t yet learned.