The Baal Hatanya zy"a said a moshol of someone who wants to get to the other side of a long hole. To do so, one must jump as far as he can. So too, if one wants to do genuine teshuva, he must jump as far as he can from his previous ways. If one does this, he can reach exalted levels that even those who never sinned in their lives could ever reach.
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