How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service
So if you suffer a little bit, or you suffer a lot, or if you don’t suffer anything at all, that depends on you—on whether you have insight, whether you have compassion or not.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
Secondly, some strong, capable help must arrive and provide what he needs. As always, he will not just accept the help; he will test it. If the helpers pass the test, he will relax and take in a little bit of the help he needs.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
If we really want to be of assistance to others, the first thing to learn is to translate any message into an expression of a need. The message might take the form of silence, denial, a judgmental remark, a gesture—or, hopefully, a request. We hone our skills to hear the need within every message, even if at first we have to rely on guesses.
Marshall B. Rosenberg • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
My CPE peers and I want to serve the families in need. We don’t want to get lost in the triggers of our own stories.