How humility empowers amid difficulties

Amid difficulties, our mind tends to propel us between extremes, akin to the extremes of a pendulum. For example, when we are faced with a situation in which we don't know what to do, the mind may make us oscillate between flawlessness and worthlessness. 

Initially, it may demand that we be perfect and come up with an absolutely flawless understanding or solution. Such a demand is veritably impossible to meet, for we are finite and fallible beings. If somehow we make ourselves believe that we have become perfect, then that makes us foolishly inflexible. And we end up racing down the path of self-destruction paved by our own adamant and arrogant certainty of the perfection of our solutions or conceptions.

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