Our entire life’s journey consists of ups and downs – zigzags.  One moment we lift our heads and we feel as if we only desire Hashem – and a moment later we are looking sideways … and we fall. But, after every ascent, after each inspiration – when we suffer a setback – it is never to the exact same place that we occupied before.
We progress. We fall to a place that is slightly less lower (two steps forward – only one back).  That is how we grow.  ~ R’ Menachem Azolai as translated by Dov Elias