Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He may bring his nature to a condition of ONE, he may nourish his strength; he may harmonise his virtue, and so put himself into partnership with God.

Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.