Can you
marry your spirit and
body to the oneness and
never depart
from it?
Can you ride your breath
until your entire being is as supple
as the body of an infant?
Can you cleanse
your inner vision until
you see heaven in
very direction?
Can you love
people and govern them
without conniving and
manipulating?
Can you bear
heaven’s children in all
that you do and are?
Can you give the wisdom of
your heart precedence
over the learning of
your head?
Giving birth,
nourishing life,
shaping things
without possessing them,
serving without expectation of
reward, leading without dominating:
These are the profound virtues
of nature, and of nature’s
best things.
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