Ram Dass and Paul Gorman approach charitable service as a liberation from the prison of self and separateness, and as a solution to the inarticulate loneliness we feel when we lack a connection to others. The anecdotes are the best part here, and the reader wants more of them. Between people’s stories, the authors narrate simple psychology directed to the helping professions.
— Sallie Tisdale
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(Stories and Reflections on Service)
Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
1985; 243 pp.
ISBN 0394729471
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:
Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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There’s one thing I’ve learned in twenty-five years or so of political organizing: People don’t like to be “should” upon. They’d rather discover than be told.
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The basic social institution is the individual human heart. It is the source of the energy from which all social action derives its power and purpose. The more we honor the integrity of that source, the more chance our actions have of reaching and stirring others.