Tao Te Ching: Chapter 4

The Tao is empty but fills everything.

Bottomless source of all beings.

Edgeless and unconvoluted, shining with modesty, quite at home in the dust.

Hard to see but impossible to miss.

What could it be made of?

It is here before everything else.

Setting our hearts on this path, everything we do becomes our magnum opus, and through whole-hearted refinement we make it a monument worthy of spending a life on.