John Sutter says all of us are geared to help, and the responses to the Boston bombings show that.
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"Look for the helpers . . . "
We are herd/pack animals who call ourselves human beings or social animals. The helpers are people who revert back to their instinct to help a fellow man. Often at peril to their own lives. Often sacrificing their own life to save another. When you look at the derivation of "sacrifice" it is made up of two Latin words "sacra" and "facio" that is "to make holy."
Bombshel says it beautifully. This is how I shared the Power of One back in 2010 about a dear friend, Rauni Prittinen King who is the co-founder with Dr. Mimi Guarneri of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine.
The Power of One united is a force that reunites body/mind/spirit back into the basics of being: human.