Tag Archives: homelessness

Karma Yoga in Harvard Square

It comes up very often in Karma Yoga that in order to truly help others, we must not think that we’re doing anyone else a favor. And in reality, in order to help anyone in the right way, we must really try to fully understand them first. The best advice I’ve received came from those [...]

Service

I recently started volunteering during the overnight shift at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (HSHS), and this week I had one of the most perspective-changing experiences of my life so far. One of the guests in the shelter showed me just how much I was unconsciously biased in ways that I had never realized. In [...]