We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
4 Dao is like an empty vessel that yet can be drawn from without ever needing to be filled. It's without bottom; the very breeder of all things in the world. In it all sharpness is blunted, all tangles untied, all glare tempered, all turmoil smoothed. It's like a deep pool that never dries. Was it too the child of something else? We can hardly tell. A substanceless image of all things seemed to exist before the progenitor that we hardly know of. -- tr. T. Byrn