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How Can I Help?

Stories and Reflections on Service

By Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

By Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

By Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

By Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

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Mar 12, 1985 | ISBN 9780394729473

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Dec 21, 2011 | ISBN 9780307809636

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    About How Can I Help?

    Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another–at home, at work, on the street, on the phone. . . . We do what we can. Yet so much comes up to complicate this natural response: "Will I have what it takes?" "How much is enough?" "How can I deal with suffering?" "And what really helps, anyway?"

    In this practical helper’s companion, the authors explore a path through these confusions, and provide support and inspiration fo us in our efforts as members of the helping professions, as volunteers, as community activists, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other’s needs. Here too are deeply moving personal accounts: A housewife brings zoo animals to lift the spirits of nursing home residents; a nun tends the wounded on the first night of the Nicaraguan revolution; a police officer talks a desperate father out of leaping from a roof with his child; a nurse allows an infant to spend its last moments of life in her arms rather than on a hospital machine. From many such stories and the authors’ reflections, we can find strength, clarity, and wisdom for those times when we are called on to care for one another. How Can I Help? reminds us just how much we have to give and how doing so can lead to some of the most joyous moments of our lives.

    About How Can I Help?

    Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another–at home, at work, on the street, on the phone. . . . We do what we can. Yet so much comes up to complicate this natural response: "Will I have what it takes?" "How much is enough?" "How can I deal with suffering?" "And what really helps, anyway?"

    In this practical helper’s companion, the authors explore a path through these confusions, and provide support and inspiration fo us in our efforts as members of the helping professions, as volunteers, as community activists, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other’s needs. Here too are deeply moving personal accounts: A housewife brings zoo animals to lift the spirits of nursing home residents; a nun tends the wounded on the first night of the Nicaraguan revolution; a police officer talks a desperate father out of leaping from a roof with his child; a nurse allows an infant to spend its last moments of life in her arms rather than on a hospital machine. From many such stories and the authors’ reflections, we can find strength, clarity, and wisdom for those times when we are called on to care for one another. How Can I Help? reminds us just how much we have to give and how doing so can lead to some of the most joyous moments of our lives.

    Also by Ram Dass

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    Also by Ram Dass

    One-Liners
    Paths to God
    Still Here
    Compassion in Action
    Journey of Awakening
    See all books by Ram Dass

    About Ram Dass

    Ram Dass served on the faculty at Stanford and Harvard Universities. In the 1960s, he traveled to India, where he met… More about Ram Dass

    About Paul Gorman

    Paul Gorman is a writer and curator whose focus is on visual culture. He is the author of many books.

    About Ram Dass

    Ram Dass served on the faculty at Stanford and Harvard Universities. In the 1960s, he traveled to India, where he met… More about Ram Dass

    About Paul Gorman

    Paul Gorman is a writer and curator whose focus is on visual culture. He is the author of many books.

    Product Details

    Category: Inspiration & Motivation | Psychology | Religion

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Knopf
    Mar 12, 1985 | 272 Pages | 5 x 7-7/8 | ISBN 9780394729473

    Category: Inspiration & Motivation | Psychology | Religion

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Knopf
    Dec 21, 2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307809636

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    Praise

    "A treasury of compassion, made all the more valuable by its many examples of how individuals can interact for the better with people and, indeed, the world around them." –Norman Cousins, author of Anantomy of an Illness

    "How Can I Help? deserves a special place on that shelf reserved for truly practical wisdom." –Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

    "How Can I Help? is a gentle, tender, spiritual book." –Karl Menninger, M.D., F.A.P.A

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