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Blessed is the person who knows his own weakness, because
awareness of this becomes for him the foundation and beginning of
all that is good and beautiful.
For whenever someone realizes and perceives that he is truly
and indeed weak, then he draws in his soul from the diffuseness
which dissipates knowledge, and he becomes all the more watchful of
his soul.
Do not continue, in ignorance, to promise God that you will of
your own ability cease from sin, “for without Me you can do
nothing.”[i]
Rather, confess your weakness before him and ask for His grace to
aid you according to His promise, “My grace is sufficient for you,
for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”[ii]
When someone is aware the he is in need of divine help, he
makes many prayers, and once he has made much supplication, his
heart is humbled, for there is no one who is in need and asks who is
not humbled. “A broken and humbled heart, God will not despise.”[iii]
As long as the heart is not humbled it cannot cease from
wandering; for humility concentrates the heart.
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