This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Copyright © 1985 by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Terry Dobson: for the story on this page. Copyright © 1981 Terry Dobson. Reprinted by permission of Terry Dobson.

Thich Nhat Hanh: for the poem “Please Call Me by My True Names” on this page. Copyright © 1983 Thich Nhat Hanh. Reprinted by permission of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.: for the excerpt on this page, from this page of The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu translated by Witter Bynner (John Day). Copyright 1944 by Witter Bynner. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

Chet Manchester: for the story on this page. Reprinted by permission of Chet Manchester.

Random House, Inc.: for the excerpt on this page from “Musee des Beaux Arts” from W. H. Auden: Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson. Copyright 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

Simon & Schuster, Inc.: for the story on this page from Mortal Lessons by Richard Selzer. Copyright © 1974, 1975, 1976 by Richard Selzer. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Whatever Publishing, Inc.: for the story on this page from The Dolphons’ Gift by Elizabeth Gawain. Copyright © 1981 by Elizabeth Gawain, pp. 233–4. Reprinted by permission of Whatever Publishing, Inc., Mill Valley, California.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Ram Dass.
  How can I help?
  1. Helping behavior. I. Gorman, Paul, 1940–
II. Title.
BF637.H4R36 1985 158 84-48734
eISBN: 978-0-307-80963-6

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