DAY 260
Kokoro
こころ
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
How should we live when confronted with the deep-seated selfishness at the core of human nature?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading down through the long testament left by "Sensei," holding my breath, I felt an overwhelming heaviness settle in my chest. Soseki shows, as if dissecting with a scalpel, how much chilling egoism and betrayal can hide within a human being who seems ordinary and good-natured. The author's anguish, struggling to the very end to understand the human "heart" even amid despairing distrust of others and bone-deep self-loathing, is steeped so darkly in every word that it moved me to tears.
— ONGO · Curator
"Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change."Natsume Soseki, Kokoro
"평소에는 다들 착한 사람이지요. 그러나 막상 어떤 일이 닥치면 갑자기 악인으로 변하니까 무서운 겁니다."
🌱Apply It Today
Before condemning others' selfishness, look honestly into the dark depths of your own heart: have you ever quietly wounded or ignored someone for your own gain?
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多多益善
The More, The Better
다다익선 · virtue of abundance
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