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詹姆斯·艾伦：思考的人·摘录 21
詹姆斯·艾伦《思考的人》· As a Man Thinketh · 健康
It is pleasing to human vanity to believe that one suffers because of one's virtue; but not until a man has extirpated every sickly, bitter, and impure thought from his mind, and washed every sinful stain from his soul, can he be in a position to know and declare that his sufferings are the result of his good, and not of his bad qualities; and on the way to, yet long before he has reached, that supreme perfection, he will have found, working in his mind and life, the Great Law which is absolutely just, and which cannot, therefore, give good for evil, evil for good. Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.
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定位：Excerpt 21 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
人总爱相信自己是因美德而受苦，这能满足虚荣心。但除非一个人把心里所有病态、怨恨、不纯的念头都清除干净，把灵魂里每一处罪污都洗净，他才没资格说自己的苦是善行带来的，而不是恶习带来的。在走向那种至高完美的路上，还远没到达时，他就会发现心里和生活里运行着一条绝对公正的大法则，它不会以善报恶、以恶报善。有了这种认识，他回头看过去的无知和盲目，就会明白自己的生活一直井然有序，过去所有好坏经历，都是他那正在成长却尚未成熟的自我公平地结出的果。核心是：别急着把受苦归功于美德。做法是：先诚实检查自己有没有隐藏的恶念和恶习，再判断苦从何来。
上下文
同上书，作者反驳人常有的自我美化倾向，强调因果法则的公正。
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我最近受的苦，有没有可能部分来自自己不愿承认的坏习惯？
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