Emptiness is Full of Power

By WS Rendra

Habit is not personality
Personality is also not a delusion
about ourselves.
Personality comes from emptiness.
When we are empty
we are agile and alert.
In emptiness,
we can respond to anything,
according to the circumstances
and not based on habit.
The full are rigid and lumbering –
often even have no power.
The empty are in fact full of power.

WS Rendra, Emptiness is Full of Power (Kosong Itu Penuh Daya), Lotus Poems (Syair Teratai), Sinar Harapan Daily, 19 April 1975 (Accessed from Armin Bell, Kumpulan Fiksi Blog, Collected Fiction Blog.)