Ram Dass helps us understand this ego dissolution in How Can I Help?: “The most familiar models of who we are—father and daughter, doctor and patient, "helper" and "helped"—often turn out to be major obstacles to the expression of our caring instincts; they limit the full measure of what we have to offer one another. But when we break through and meet in spirit behind our separateness, we experience sincere moments of companionship. These, in turn, give us access to deeper and deeper levels of generosity and loving-kindness. True compassion raises out of unity.” 4
