Favor and disgrace startle the heart.
Regard great misfortune as you do your own self.

What is meant by ‘favor and disgrace startle the heart’?
Favor is a lowly thing.
To gain it is startling;
to lose it is startling.
This is why favor and disgrace startle the heart.

What is meant by ‘regard great misfortune as you do your own self’?
The reason I face great misfortune
is because I possess this self.
If I possessed no self,
what misfortune could ever touch me?

Therefore,
she who values her body as the world
is worthy to be entrusted with the world.
She who loves her body as the world
is worthy to hold the world in her care.