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"In carrying about your more spiritual and more physical aspects and embracing their oneness, Are you able to keep them from separating? In concentrating your qi and making it pliant, Are you able to become the newborn babe? In scrubbing and cleansing your profound mirror, Are you able to rid it of all imperfections? In loving the common people and breathing life into the state, Are you able to do it without recourse to wisdom? With nature’s gates swinging open and closed, Are you able to remain the female? With your insight penetrating the four quarters, Are you able to do it without recourse to wisdom? It gives life to things and nurtures them. Giving life without managing them And raising them without lording it over them— This is called the profoundest efficacy (de)."