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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Widely attributed to Lao Tzu, but found in no translation of the Tao Te Ching; it is a modern saying in a Taoist key. The Tao Te Ching's genuine chapters do teach the release it describes: soft overcomes hard, the usefulness of a vessel is its emptiness, and clinging to a fixed self blocks the becoming that wants to happen.
Lao Tzu (attributed)Philosophy
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A jug fills drop by drop.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print, made through a reproducible process rather than as a single unique painting.On both platforms
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View the full programmeExhibition 01
The practice of attention
Works and ideas about what changes when looking, listening and making slow down.
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Exhibition 02
What the eye cannot see
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Exhibition 03
The past is still here
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