Be Empty to Become Filled

...if you want abundance, knowledge, health, love, and all the other attributes that personify the Tao, you need to be receptive to them. Lao-tzu instructs that you must be empty in order to become filled, for attachments keep you so restricted that nothing can enter your already-filled self. Being empty in this sense means not being full of beliefs, possessions, or ego-driven ideas, but rather remaining open to all possibilities. ~ Wayne Dyer, Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao 

Hoarders. Compulsive hoarding disorder.
Syllogomania. Disposophobia.
Big words. The extreme of a problem
but the smaller version, clutter collecting,
can be nearly as traumatic.
Ask Clutterers Anonymous members.
Collectibles. Collections.
Those things people see many of
and give you more.
We keep our precious stuff.
It doesn't matter if the box
hasn't been opened since the move
in 1978 from Austin to Abilene.

Overcommitment. Obligated.
Harried. Involved. Knee-deep.

Swamped. The same thing happens
to lives as to houses. And just as paralyzing.

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”