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I’m not even talking about the internal warfare that is in ourselves, in our passions and which is raised against us day and night, either openly or secretly, this body of humility, and the absent-mindedness of life, disturbing and exciting us through sensuality and temporary pleasures, and the dirt of dust with which we are mixed, and the sinful law, warring against the spiritual law and intensifying to corrupt in us the royal image and everything that is divinely invested in us. origin (1). What law governs me? Why did I become a prisoner of the flesh on earth? How is the body mixed with the light spirit? I am not all pure nature - mind, not all and the worst - dust; but is composed of both and something else with them. And therefore I endure the incessant anxiety of battle between those who are mutually at odds - both flesh and soul. I, the image of God, am drawn into sinfulness; the worst in me unjustly resists the better, or I run away from sins and resist them, but not without difficulty, after many struggles and with only heavenly help (2). You might be interested in: