 Thus, Wang connected values—ritual-propriety, the way of kingship, communal principle—with private feelings, as the body and its affections became a locus of ethical experience, li-principle. In explicating the idea of “fully realizing our nature” (jinxing), he argued that everything in the world was of the same origin as oneself. Therefore, the individual was the fulcrum on which the world moved, and this mandated an active life. Practice, or xi, was the key to exhaustively realizing and fulfilling our nature, which was the nurturing of our very qi: 