Sublime Agreement

"The man of large-hearted virtue is like an infant whom poisonous reptiles will not sting, wild beasts will not seize, and birds of prey will not strike. His bones are tender, and his sinews weak, and yet he grasps firmly. He is unconscious of sexual communion, and yet he has the developement of sex. This is the perfection of seminal essence. He may cry all day without injuring his vocal organs. This is the perfection of harmony (in his constitution). The knowledge of harmony is called everlasting. The knowledge of the everlasting is called brightness. Fast living daily grows upon a man, and as his mind keeps in exercise the animal spirits, they daily become stronger. But whenever anything has reached its highest point of vigour, it straightway becomes old. This I call not Tau. What is not Tau soon perishes."