Holes of Pots and Our's :

If you want to fill a pot with water you cannot do so if there is even one small hole somewhere.

But most of us are pots with many holes.

So how can they be filled?

First of all,

these holes must be stopped.

And this means a long time of sincere,

steady striving,

and strict culture.

Our hole may be anger,

or lust,

or aversion,

or jealousy,

or desire for name and fame,

or attachment to property and

our kith and kin,

it may even be the desire to appear better than we really are,

and every one of these is enough to stop our whole progress.

- Swami Yatiswarananda (Readings on the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)