" Remember that the greatest help you can give a person is to wake them up, to remind them of who they really are. There are many ways to do this. Sometimes with a little bit of help; a push, a shove, a nudge ... and sometimes with a decision to let them run their course, follow their path, walk their walk, without any interference or intervention from you. (all parents know about this choice and agonize over it daily.)
What you have the opportunity to do for the less fortunate is to re-mind them. That is, cause them to be of a new mind about themselves. And you, too, have to be of a new mind about them, for if you see them as unfortunate, they will. Jesus’ great gift was that he saw everyone as who they truly are. He refused to accept appearances; he refused to believe what others believed of themselves. He always had a higher thought, and he always invited others to it.
Yet he also honored where others chose to be. He did not require them to accept his higher idea, merely held it out as an invitation. He dealt, too, with compassion—and if others chose to see themselves as beings needing assistance, he did not reject them for their faulty assessment, but allowed them to love their reality—and lovingly assisted them in playing out their choice. For Jesus knew that for some the fastest path to who they are was the path through who they are NOT. "
- Donald Walsch (Conversations with God - volume 2)
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