respect for humanity

Lesly 2022-10-26 13:31:34

Last night, it was very late at night. After watching The Soloist alone, I hurriedly pulled out Bei San and listened quietly.
I don't know if it was the music that moved me or the plot that moved me. De Rijin, a French thinker, said, "We are not human beings with spiritual experience, but spiritual beings with human experience." The soloist interprets this sentence. When we feel the real life of the homeless, we hypocritically think that helping them is our nobility. But who knows whether he needs your so-called help or not. In his spiritual existence, this is just a human experience. You have your experience, he has his experience, and every experience is unique to him. is the real absolute existence.
We often fail to respect the spiritual existence around us, to understand his real needs, and to judge the lives of others based on our own experience of existence. As long as you have a judgment, as long as you speak with one mouth, you have already gone in the wrong direction, and you have ignored the feelings of the people around you.
When the music flows in the heart, who can say that this feeling is not happiness?

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The Soloist quotes

  • Nathaniel Ayers: [going to sleep] Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Just keep it coming. There's plenty. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

    Steve Lopez: [narrating] I knew only part of his story. I knew him playing the violin on a dairy crate in the morning sun, suspended somewhere between boy genius and lost traveler. Every night my friend Nathaniel tucks his instruments away and lays his head among the predators and hustlers, among the fallen drunks sprawled in the streets, as rats the size of meatloaves dart out of the drains to feed off the squalor.

    Nathaniel Ayers: Lead us not into temptation. For thine is kingdom, the power and the glory, forever. Forever and ever.

    Steve Lopez: [narrating] I tell him this is no place for him. He says he wants to be here. He says this is his choice. Should I take him at his word, or should I try to force him inside? Wouldn't a little arm-twisting be more humane than leaving him here on the streets in this lost colony of broken, helpless souls?

    Nathaniel Ayers: I hope you sleep well, Mr. Lopez. I hope the whole world sleeps well.

  • Steve Lopez: Every now and then, the hearts, minds, and wallets of the city's officials open simultaneously. And when that happens, every now and then, the city is a better place for it.