What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?
Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!
Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?