Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
- This chapter points out the power of being humble with a pretty great metaphor.
- Rivers and oceans take all of the water in the world into them simply because they are the lowest points on the Earth.
- So we can lead people in the same way.
- By playing up our low status and being humble, the people will come to us.
- By not trying to seize power, power will come to us.