© Peck Gee Chua
Retreating from abundance, white space trades efficiency for presence. In its quiet withdrawal, what remains is space. A space where subtraction becomes addition, where stepping back allows what is honest to emerge.
~Living my own words in kokoro no yohaku
Presence in the White Margin of the Heart
Kyoto Journal Issue #110
Empty space is as essential as our continual impulse to fill it.
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