In the Talmud-Book of Law is asked the question, Who is a Chasid? The answer is obtuse, first stating that those who drive donkeys can not be a Chasid because they drink and fight, then suggesting that perhaps a camel driver is a Chasid because he is out in the desert for a long time without water, concluding with, a sailor is a Chasid.
Chasid comes from the word Chesed/Kindness; the Cabala teaches that the virtue of Chesed comes upon a person in old age when the hair turns white and the back is bent in humility. In the beginning we are filled with Din/Strictness accounting for a lot of arrogance, but as life meanders down the stream to the ocean the strictness are replace with kindness.
The Pacific ocean is the largest ocean in the world; being on that body of water shows our smallness as do the giant redwoods along the coast. It is in our smallness and humility that we are powerful like the point of a lightning rod able to conduct massive amounts of electricity into ground.
The smaller the vessel the greater is the light.
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