The Talmud teaches how to keep from falling into the power of sin:
APPLY THY MIND TO THREE THINGS AND THOU WILT NOT COME INTO THE POWER OF SIN: KNOW WHENCE THOU CAMEST, AND WHITHER THOU ART GOING, AND BEFORE WHOM THOU ART DESTINED TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT AND RECKONING. WHENCE CAMEST THOU? FROM A FETID DROP. WHITHER ART THOU GOING? TO A PLACE OF DUST, OF WORM AND OF MAGGOT. BEFORE WHOM ART THOU DESTINED TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT AND RECKONING? BEFORE THE KING OF THE KINGS OF KINGS, THE HOLY ONE, BLESSED BE HE.
If only we would keep these three things in mind every day of our lives.
