Christ the Eternal Tao: Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Sixteen from the book 'Christ the Eternal Tao' by Hieromonk Damascene.
Text:
"Water," said the Ancient Sage, "greatly benefits all things but does not compete with them.
It dwells in lowly places that all disdain, and so it is like the Way."
The Way came down and emptied Himself in a lowly cave:
Not amidst human dwellings, but in the home of lowly animals.
Born on a lowly bed, dirty straw strewn on the ground.
Happy, prosperous people slept in soft beds in the nearby inn.
But while other infants wept that night, He was silent.
And the sheep bleated like rippling water.