If One Is Truly to Succeed in Leading

a Person to a Specific Place,

One Must First and Foremost

Take Care to Find Him Where He is

and Begin There.

This is the secret in the entire art of helping.

Anyone who cannot do this

is himself under a delusion

if he thinks he is able to help someone else.

In order truly to help someone else,

I must understand more than he

–but certainly first and foremost

understand what he understands.

If I do not do that,

then my greater understanding

does not help him at all.

If I nevertheless want to assert

my greater understanding,

then it is because I am vain or proud,

then basically instead of benefiting him

I really want to be admired by him.

But all true helping begins with a humbling.

The helper must first humble himself under the person

he wants to help and thereby

understand that to help is not to dominate but to serve,

that to help is a not to be the most dominating

but the most patient,

that to help is a willingness for the time being

to put up with being in the wrong and

not understanding what the other understands.

(Sören Kierkegaard)

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Johan de Kleine