Refusing to participate in evil

Tolstoy's mysticism centered on an ethical, non-dogmatic faith discovered through personal experience and the simple life of the peasantry, leading him to reject established religion, reason alone, and violence in favor of a spiritual life focused on love, humility, and service. After a spiritual crisis, he embraced what he called true faith, an intuitive trust in a cosmic whole and a personal connection to the divine found in simple, moral actions and universal love, not in rituals or intellectual dogma