— Anaïs Nin https://t.co/QVsRQ75MN3
Chances are, if you can’t accept help, you can’t really give it.
Ram Dass • How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service
You have to give yourself. For, if you can give yourself in the right way, you can give to everyone with whom you come into contact. However, before you can give yourself, you must have gained yourself. You cannot give what you do not have.
Eva Pierrakos • Surrender to God Within: Pathwork at the Soul Level
Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.