Tolstoy felt the record

Author: Zhang Xiuzhang
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: People have always been paying attention to where their lives are lacking and where they need improvement. However, what can be improved lies only within their control—their own selves. To improve themselves, the most important thing is that they must acknowledge that they are not inherently good. But people dislike admitting their own flaws. Their attention is usually not on the things within their control—their own selves—but on external conditions beyond their influence. Such conditions, no matter how much one tries to change them, rarely improve people's circumstances. This is like shaking a bottle of wine as much as possible or transferring the wine to another container—the quality of the wine remains unchanged. Because when one only focuses on things beyond their control, useless, harmful, arrogant, cruel, and decadent activities begin.