How Can I Help?

Stories and Reflections on Service

De: Paul Gorman, Ram Dass

Narrado por: Paul Brion

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 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.

©1985 Ram Dass and Paul Gorman (P)2019 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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 Anatomy of an Illness)

The Caretaker Journey

Great insights and inspirations into the caretaker journey. A reminder of the power of mindfulness and selflessness.

Please Read!

This should be a part of the human curriculum! It reminds us of our true purpose and responsibility to one another!

Will read again!

This book reminds me, awakens something in me, and inspires me.

I will read this again if I start to forget.

Bravo!

I hope to listen to this bill more than once. It really calmed me down during a tough time. Teaches how to love and enjoy the ride of life. Thank you

narration lacks feeling

hard to follow due to narration. The stories of helping others blends together completely. I would be listening to a story and had no clue if it was new or whom it was about or whoms point of view it was. I had hoped for better.

concepts are still good of course. Narration is lacking gusto