The persons who are capable of honest self-examination are the ones who change. They aren’t necessarily «good» to begin with, but they retain the capacity to face uncomfortable truths about themselves.
From the outside, almost nothing has changed.
From the inside, everything has.
Life events do not change people. Instead, life events reveal who people already are and whether they are capable of changing.
A person who never questions themselves is not fully awake.
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