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1. Cultivating humility helps avoid despair. The trouble is when the soul comes to the insolence of “I’m not afraid of anything”... this is the beginning of the fall and all destruction. But with this good disposition, you need to protect yourself from excess, you need to know the limits of this, otherwise you will fall into despondency, and then into despair. Despite all our weaknesses, we believe that the Lord does not want the sinner to die and that, therefore, when we do not willingly surrender to weaknesses, He will not allow us to fall. A strong wind will bend some trees all the way to the ground, but the tree remains on the root and, as soon as the storm subsides, it straightens up. This happens from passions... Let them rage, but the root just needs to restrain itself. The root is the decision not to succumb to sin, even death (1, p. 21). You might be interested in: