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How Can I Help

The must read book on selfless service

How Can I Help?

by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

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 for us in our efforts as volunteers, as members of the help­ing professions, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other's needs. Here too are deeply moving personal accounts: A housewife brings animals to lift the spirits of nurs­ing home residents; 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.

 
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When service is offered to another being and it contains your best thoughts and feelings, your love and affection, sympathy and compassion, then that action becomes a blessing in disguise to uplift another being. That is seva.
– Swami Niranjananda.

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There are hundreds of paths to become happy, to attain God, attain peace or awaken psychic powers, but the simplest of all is the path of Seva, selfless service. – Swami Satyananda

Let your actions be performed as a service to the evolution of all beings and you will enjoy a life of utter freedom, simplicity and bliss. - Swami Satyananda
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– Albert Einstein

I slept and dreamt that life was joy
I awoke and saw that life was service
I acted and behold, service was joy.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burk
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
- James M. Barrie

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Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marian Wright Edelman

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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, jr

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You must be the change you want to see in the world.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
- Mother Therese

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So much trouble in the world now
So much trouble in the world now
All you got to do is give a little
Give a little, give a little.
- Bob Marley
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
– Dalai Lama
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It will all just be a dream if you don’t stand up and participate. We all have to join together to eradicate poverty, to bring primary education, health, hygiene, care for the environment and make this world a more beautiful place to be in.
– Art of Living Founder, H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- Buddha

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, as I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
– Lech Walesa
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All the great men and women who have lived on this earth have been selfless and desireless; they lived to serve and help others.  They knew that the only way to freedom is to learn to give. This is the law of life.......
- Swami Rama
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Serve, Love, Give, Do Good, Be Good, Purify, Meditate, Realise.
- Swami Sivananda
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To the question, "How can I help?" we now see the possibility of a deeper answer than we might once have expected. We can, of course, help through all that we do. But at the deepest level we help through who we are. We help, that is, by appreciating the connection between service and our own progress on the journey of awakening into a fuller sense of unity.

We work on ourselves, then, in order to help others. And we help others as a vehicle for working on ourselves.
- Ram Das
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I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place
With my own two hands

I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
And I can clean up the earth
With my own two hands
And I can reach out to you
With my own two hands

I'm gonna make it a brighter place
I'm gonna make it a safer place
I'm gonna help the human race
- Ben Harper

 

  
 
 
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