After reading a religious tract by Tolstoy in 1903, his doubts about the meaning of life were resolved, and from this point on he lived a life of ascetic self-reflection and contribution to society.
一九○三年，他讀過托爾斯泰的「我即宗教」一書後，疑惑大解，從此過著禁慾奉獻的內省生活。