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 Benedict rules

humility:

Brethren, sacred scripture cries to us saying: everyone who elevates himself shall be humbled, and the one who would humble himself shall be elevated. As it says these things, it shows us that all elevation is a sort of  

overarching pride. The prophet indicates he is wary of this, saying : O Lord, mine heart is not elevated, nor mine eyes lifted up, nor have I walked in great things, nor in marvels over me. But why ? If I were not to sense humbly, if I elevated my soul on high, as one whom his mother denied milk, so wouldst Thou make retribution to my soul .

Whence , brethren, if we wish to touch the peak of highest humility, and we wish to arrive speedily to that heavenly elevation to which we climb up through the humility of this present life, by our scaling deeds, we must erect a ladder----that ladder that appeared to Jacob in a dream , on which were shown him angels scaling up and down. That scaling up and down should, doubtless, not to be understood otherwise than that we scale down by elevation and up by humility. Now, the ladder to erected is our life in this age, which is erected by the Lord even unto heaven in a humbled heart. For the sides of this ladder we say to be our body and soul. The divine summoning has inserted different steps for scaling into these sides, those of humility or discipline.

 If one, putting ever before the eyes the fear of the Lord, should flee forgetfulness completely, and always remember all things God has commanded, so that he ever turn over in his mind both the way Gehenna burns for their sins those disdaining God, and the eternal life that has been prepared for those fearing God.And, guarding himself at every hour from sins and vices----namely those of thoughts, tongue , hands, feet, or of his own will , as also the desires of the flesh---- a man think himself ever watched from heaven by God, at every hour, and his deeds seen everywhere by the divine gaze and reported by angels every hour. This the Prophet indicates to us when he shows that God is always present in our thoughts, saying: God who searcheth hearts and reins; and again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men. And again, He says: Thou hast understood my thoughts from afar, and: For the thoughts of man shall confess to Thee. For, in order to be careful of his own twisted thoughts, the profitable brother should always say in his heart: Then shall I be without blemish before Him, if I shall have kept myself from my iniquity.

Now we are indeed prohibited to do our own wills when the scripture says to us: And turn away from thy own wishes. And , again, we beseech God in the prayer that His will be done.