Understanding Spirituality and Culture through Christ
A mind compulsively intent on self-preservation cannot look at the world from the other person’s point of view. Only when one steps away from ones addiction to self-preservation can one’s mind be freed to see the world from the other person’s point of view. Then one will stop seeing others as “tools” in one’s own project of self-preservation, making way to have empathy for the other.
Read MoreThis lesson of being mindful of our emotions as a way of raising our ability to listen and be empathic is critical for personal relationships and for communal cohesiveness. Part of the reason why political discourse is so broken in Universities and the society at large is because people tend to blame the other people for the unpleasant emotions that others trigger in them. When our emotions get triggered by something that is happening we have to stop and ask ourselves, "Do I do well to get triggered?"
Read MoreUltimately, it is empathy that brings both stories together. Both movies will remain classics not merely because they have good songs but because they are about human empathy. Empathy of the father for his children. Empathy of the powerful for the weak.
Read MoreLeo Tolstoy in analyzing Ivan Ilych's death, shows us how to really live in the modern society that lives by superficial values of "pleasantness" and "decorousness".
