When you are kind to someone in trouble you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.