I like these lines of verse - we spend so much of our lives needing to be fulfilled, filled with something, that we never think of emptiness as being a necessary element in our lives - the empty space, the blank piece of paper are the starting points of creation:
I've said before that every craftsman
searches for what's not there
to practice his craft.
A builder looks for the rotten hole
where the roof caved in. A water-carrier
picks the empty pot. A carpenter
stops at the house with no door.
Workers rush toward some hint
of emptiness, which they then
start to fill. Their hope, though,
is for emptiness, so don't think
you must avoid it. It contains
what you need!
Dear soul, if you were not friends
with the vast nothing inside,
why would you always be casting you net
into it, and waiting so patiently?
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi (1207-1273 AD)
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