#kindness
Gift
http://www.passionriver.com/gift.html
Creative documentary inspired by Lewis Hyde’s The Gift. Chronicling gift-based cultures around the world and challenging the logic of global capitalism, the film provokes the question: is life about getting, or giving?
Gift is a feature-length documentary and crossmedia project inspired by Lewis Hyde’s classic bestseller The Gift: “a brilliant defense of the value of creativity and it’s importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities.”
Gift invites us to question our fundamental economic values, proposing the possibility of a new collective narrative. Following its characters and the challenges they encounter, it explores the questions and contradictions involved in giving and receiving - and inspired by Hyde’s approach, asks what it might mean to “share our gifts” in more meaningful ways. As the film unfolds, it explores the openness and receptivity required to receive our gifts-the things willpower alone cannot produce.
“My concern is the gift we long for, the gift that, when it comes, speaks commandingly to the soul and irresistibly moves us.”
― Lewis Hyde, The Gift
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I recently listened to an interview with Cornel West, and i realized that he always starts by expressing apreciation/gratitude towards the people he is with.
I wish everyone did the same, what a world we would have if we see the beauty in each other regularly like this!
Quote Investigator: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
Probably from Reverand John Whatson, pseudonym Ian MacLaren, in 1897.
The original form substitutes "pitiful" for "kind":
Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle
The archaic meaning being:
pitiful, A. adj. 1. Full of or characterized by pity; compassionate, merciful, tender. Now rare.
Modern terms might be charitable, empathetic, or understanding. I'll note that there are times when outright kindness is somewhat dampened by the fact that the other's battle seems to be pitched in whole or part against me.
A relatively modern (1965, Chicago Tribune) explanation expands the concept:
Most of us are acutely aware of our own struggles and we are preoccupied with our own problems. We sympathize with ourselves because we see our own difficulties so clearly. But Ian MacLaren noted wisely, “Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.”
MacClaren's own original explanation:
This man beside us also has a hard fight with an unfavouring world, with strong temptations, with doubts and fears, with wounds of the past which have skinned over, but which smart when they are touched. It is a fact, however surprising. And when this occurs to us we are moved to deal kindly with him, to bid him be of good cheer, to let him understand that we are also fighting a battle; we are bound not to irritate him, nor press hardly upon him nor help his lower self.
One element of the concept I refer to as #manifestation addresses this, in that personal lived experience and history are extraordinarily difficult to express or perceive, and that much behaviour which seems hostile or irrational may well have some validity in personal history.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/
#quotes #kindness #charity #understanding #empathy #QuoteInvestigator #manifestation
A quotation by Bovee, Christian
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820-1904) American epigrammist
Thoughts, Feelings, & Fancies (1857)
#quotation #quote #communication #expression #kindness #language #understanding
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/bovee-christian/48974/
Hey everyone, I’m #newhere on this pod (for a week now). I’m interested in #cooperation, #honesty, #kindness, #reciprocity, and #tolerance. Also #astronomy, #history, #linguistics, #psychology, #urban-gardening, and #wildlife. I hope to share my ideas and hear yours. Enjoy your weekend.
