Helping
13.02.25

Help cannot be given - it can only be offered and received.

If it is said "I am helping this person by doing this", there is engagement with fantasy. A less untruthful understanding is "help is being offered".

The help that is offered may be received or rejected. Consider Jesus who was crucified. His offering of help (joy, love, peace) was ridiculed, misunderstood and deeply feared. Did that make Jesus unhelpful? No - he was neither helpful nor unhelpful absolutely - something being helpful or not is only experienced by the receiver.

The joy of offering help - or - creating the opportunity for help to be received - is within itself a goal realised as an expression of oneself.