(~) Pulse of Existence
Martin Buber
To help one another is not considered a task, but the self-evident reality
on which companionship is based. To help is not a virtue, but a pulse of
existence. He who helps another should not think of the others who could
help with him, of God or of man, nor should he consider that he has merely
to contribute; but each man should stand, answerable and responsible, in
integrity.
Help, not out of pity--that is, from a sharp, quick pain which one wishes
to expel--but out of love, which means to live with others. He who only
pities receives from the mere outward manifestation of the sorrow of
others a sharp, quick pain, totally unlike the real sorrow of the
sufferer.
He who helps must live with others, and it is only the help which springs
from living with others that subsists in the sight of God. He lets himself
be absorbed in the life and needs of the other with deep, peaceful,
devoted love, till he feels within himself the others life and needs as
though they were his own--and only then does he truly begin to help. He
who in this way lives with others, in his own action realizes the truth
that all souls are one, for each is a spark of the primordial soul, and
the whole of the primordial soul is in them.
Source: "A Year of Grace" by Martin Buber.
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