Status Updates From Help: The Original Human Di...

A beloved English teacher recommend this book to me after reading my final papers and wow there’s so much to think about here appreciate how the book is written as an exploration to the concept/theme, looking through more objective lenses but also through the authors life and own knowledge
“An even greater danger is that we will begin to project the voices of our guilty consciousness onto those we help,” (62)

'If you can sustain the insight that people are doing the best they can--if you can maintain some faith that this is an insight--you're solid. If not, maybe you should pack it in.'

Altruism is defined as a concern for others, which sounds like the basis of all virtue though it has been the pretext for much sin, for there is a risk of seeing "the other" as a little too other, as the lesser object in what the theologian Martin Buber spoke of as an I-It relationship.

I want to finish this so-so book before beginning something new...