“I'm empty, here at the edge of the sky.”
Du Fu (712–770) Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
"Poem on Night" (trans. Jan W. Walls), in Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, eds. Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (1975), p. 139
“Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.”
Variant: Prayer begins where our power ends.
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