We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
4 The Way is a void, Used but never filled: An abyss it is, Like an ancestor From which all things come. It blunts sharpness, Resolves tangles; It tempers light, Subdues turmoil. A deep pool it is, Never to run dry! Whose offspring it may be I do not know: It is like a preface to God. -- tr. R. Blakney