Every choice you make reflects who you are. No matter what, you should always focus on the present. As Liang Shuming says in this book: live in the moment, guided solely by intuition.
Three insights from this book:
1. Three attitudes toward life: pursuit, solemnity, and detachment. Pursuit is the worldly path, solemnity is the moral path, and detachment is the religious path.
2. Struggle is the effort to change the situation of "my previous self."
3. Utilitarianism affirms human desire; it can be said that desire is everything in life, and life is spent navigating the fulfillment or frustration of those desires.