Musar for Berakhot 63:4
רב פפא אמר מהכא (יחזקאל לו, כז) ואת רוחי אתן בקרבכם ועשיתי את אשר בחקי תלכו
Rab Pappa said : [It may also be learnt] from this passage: "And I will put My spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes" (ibid. v. 27).
Mesilat Yesharim
Therefore the pious deemed it good for a man to afflict himself sometimes, in order to put down the evil inclination of arrogance, which grows strong only through abundance, similar to what our sages, of blessed memory, said: "a lion does not roar over a basket of straw but over a basket of meat" (Berachot 32a).
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