She who is filled with goodness is like a newborn child: wasps and snakes will not bite it, fierce beasts will not attack it, birds of prey will not pounce on it. Its bones are soft and its muscles weak, but its grip is firm.

It hasn't yet known the union of male and female, yet its organ stirs with vitality.

It can howl all day without becoming hoarse, so perfect is its harmony. To know harmony is to know the eternal. To know the eternal is to be illumined.

Prolonging life is not harmonious./ Coercing the breath is unnatural.

Things which are overdeveloped must decay. All this is contrary to Tao, and whatever is contrary to Tao soon ceases to be.

Tao Te Ching (Brian Walker)