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

  • [last lines]

    Steve Lopez: "Points West" by Steve Lopez. A year ago, I met a man who was down on his luck and thought I might be able to help him. I don't know that I have. Yes, my friend Mr. Ayers now sleeps inside. He has a key. He has a bed. But his mental state and his well-being, are as precarious now as they were the day we met. There are people who tell me I've helped him. Mental health experts who say that the simple act of being someone's friend can change his brain chemistry, improve his functioning in the world. I can't speak for Mr. Ayers in that regard. Maybe our friendship has helped him. But maybe not. I can, however, speak for myself. I can tell you that by witnessing Mr. Ayers's courage, his humility, his faith in the power of his art, I've learned the dignity of being loyal to something you believe in, of holding onto it. Above all else, of believing, without question, that it will carry you home.

  • [first lines]

    Construction Worker: [greeting his co-workers] Buen dia, muchachos.

    Steve Lopez: [narrating] "Points West" by Steve Lopez. A construction worker in Griffith Park heard the

    Steve Lopez: [swerving his bicycle to avoid a raccoon] Hey!

    Steve Lopez: [continuing narration] He saw a cyclist cartwheel off his bike and slam face-first into the unforgiving asphalt of Riverside Drive.