I watched this movie for the first time a few months ago, and I probably should watch it again to make sure i have the line correctly. The idea and my memory of the line have stuck in my head and I wanted to learn more. When Guy and Billy are debating how to approach and deal with the poverty, Billy says something like " add your light to the sum of light". Is he quoting another text? thank you
shareNothing I can make of it?
I believe the use of an author who went out and gave his monies and had not made a difference concerning poor remaining poor.
Was very effected by Billy’s belief, and try to use the example in my life.
Just add some light to the sum of light and get on.
Example: Worked near a church that had a Madonna statue with a ton of glass candles at her feet.
Every time I drove (4:30am) by, notice the flames were out?
So I went to a paper supply store and bought a pack of plastic fax sheets and rolled them around the glass jars, tape them and lighted the wicks. Thereby allowing them to remain lighted without the wind blowing them out.
Continued the practice until a cop wrote my upped for doing a California Roll at said corner?
Told him what I was doing...the SHMUCK replied...."shouldn't be so fanatical"?
Should've told him I haven’t gone to Church in 45 years!
Sheesh!
GGC
They were debating the apparently existential conclusion of Tolstoy who thought that no matter how much good you do, it will not make a difference in the grand scheme of the universe.
Billy disagreed with Tolstoy and while I don't know if he quoted anyone specifically, but was espousing a more Buddhist philosophy that the aggregate of goodness is what counts, and we can all add to the greater good even though we may not see the result of the good in our lifetime, any good deed no matter how small matters.
Well, when some of his disciples said to Jesus that some of the money to buy him some expensive thing could have been used instead to help the poor, isn't he supposed to have said, "You will always have the poor, but you will not always have me"? So, doesn't that mean Jesus would have agreed with Tolstoy?. . . By the way, the idea of adding to the sum of good even though we do not see the results is certainly not an exclusively Buddhist idea.
sharebilly, as in billy joel, right?
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The only thing I can think of is that it means "add your light to the light that is there.".....kinda like pay it forward?
-Amanda
"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"