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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI was suppose to be there, for her, at that moment.
this is great, and who we are meant to be.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)A for effort on his part.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 4, 2013, 05:07 AM - Edit history (1)
(kicking for the video)
editing to add, because why not?
onestepforward
(3,691 posts)Just beautiful.
Liberal In Red State
(442 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)The great German philosopher Schopenhauer, in a magnificent essay on 'The Foundation of Morality,' treats of this transcendental spiritual experience. How is it, he asks, that an individual can so forget himself and his own safety that he will put himself and his life in jeopardy to save another from death or painas though that others life were his own, that others danger his own? Such a one is then acting, Schopenhauer answers, out of an instinctive recognition of the truth that he and that other in fact are one. He has been moved not from the lesser, secondary knowledge of himself as separate from others, but from an immediate experience of the greater, truer truth, that we are all one in the ground of our being. Schopenhauers name for this motivation is compassion, Mitleid, and he identifies it as the one and only inspiration of inherently moral action. It is founded, in his view, in a metaphysically valid insight. For a moment one is selfless, boundless, without ego."
Excerpt From: Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By. Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2011-03-11. iBooks.
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Although he is speaking here more of rescue workers, police, people that are put in physical danger helping others. Still has application here too tho.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,702 posts)He did just that.
Wow.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)A sense of meaning and purpose is what makes life...well, life.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Thucydides
(212 posts)R B Garr
(16,976 posts)Right now.
Wow, that's a very touching thing to watch.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)We all have that thing, we are all like that really. But it gets hidden by so many distracting things like keeping up with jonses, having to win win win at everything, all that junk takes that away from us.
SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Sometimes it can be from lack of sleep due to stress or from overwork. A lot of people are out there working two jobs and missing sleep so you can expect to see this sort of thing. Once someone snaps out of it they often are shocked about what they were about to do. Cops see this too with cars flying along at 100+ mph with the driver falling asleep at the wheel.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Love this guy. He knows what compassion is. And takes action--the most important step.
Really, we all do this (hopefully), just that it's not usually in such dramatic circumstances. But every kindness we extend when we might prefer to keep to ourselves is in the same spirit as this man's.
It's good to be reminded--I want to be like this more often. I WILL. It's a decision.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)We all need to take care of one another and step outside of ourselves to see what is happening right in front of us. I salute this man's courage and compassion. I hope she gets the help she needs. We celebrate money, power and fame when we should be celebrating kindness.
kcr
(15,320 posts)I didn't even realize anyone was on the bus till you hear them cheering at the end. They were sitting there quiet the whole time, couldn't hear a pin drop I bet.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Humanity at it's finest.
sheshe2
(83,901 posts)simply beautiful~
Skittles
(153,193 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Awesome! What a grand fellow!
Julie
marble falls
(57,208 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)Thanks for posting.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Two lives forever entwined - beautiful! Thanks for posting.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)His caption was, "...and what did YOU do today?" =)
This guy made me feel better about my fellow man...not always an easy thing to do.