Hong Zicheng Quote

I am a miniature of heaven-and-earth.
When I am not astray in joy or anger,
and I regulate the pleasant and the harmful,
I conform to universal law. Heaven and
earth are the great father and mother.
Rather than causing dissension among
people or spreading the miasma of plagues,
I can be a model of intimate kindliness.

Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living - Caicentan by Hong Zicheng (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006), Translated by Robert Aitken with Daniel W. Y. Kwok, p. 61