How Can I Help? Quotes

“We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness”
― Ram Dass, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service

“The Hindu deity Hanuman offers a similar example of devotional service. Every act he performs becomes an offering to Rama (God). His service brings him to the very edge of unitive love. How powerful his vision: “When I know who I am, I am you,” he says, kneeling before Rama, “when I don’t know who I am, I serve you.”
― Ram Dass, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service

“As we acquire a certain degree of equanimity in self-image, we are that much more likely to feel empathy for those around us. We know what it’s like to be a “self” moving through the world of “others.” When someone feels particularly isolated or in pain, we don’t need a great deal of information in order to come to his or her aid.”
― Ram Dass, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service

“Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity the involuntary reflex of fear”
― Paul Gorman, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service

“affluence has bought us privacy, and the apparent power to guard it against the encroachments of other people’s adversity.”
― Ram Dass, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service