# Tao Te Ching 4

By [CreativeData](https://paragraph.com/@creativedata) · 2023-01-05

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Chapter 4

The Way is empty Yet in application seemingly inexhaustible

How vast! Like the antecedent of all creation Blunting sharpness, untangling knots, softening lights, equaling dust How deep! Like a tentative presence I have no idea who sired it, for it precedes the appearance of the Gods

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