Do you live your life with reverence? With a feeling of profound awe, deep respect and love for all that is? Do you believe that we are ALL children of God, of one source, that we are in essence one? Pause and really think about it. Do you REALLY believe it without hesitation, without any "buts", without any excuses stemmed in fear?
Author Gary Zukav states in his book The Seat of the Soul, "We look upon each other as prey to satisfy our emotional and physical needs. We say, 'It's a dog-eat-dog world,' and that to survive in it we must take advantage of others before they take advantage of us. We look upon Life as a contest that produces winners and losers, and we feel no restraints upon us when the needs of other people or other groups threaten us."
He goes on to say, "Our behavior and values are so much shaped by perceptions that lack reverence that we do not know what it is like to be reverent. When we curse a competitor or strive to disempower another person, we absent ourselves from reverence. When we work to take instead of to give, we labor without reverence. When we strive for safety at the expense of another person's safety, we deprive ourselves of the protection of reverence. When we judge one person as superior and another as inferior we depart from reverence. When we judge ourselves, we do the same thing. Business, politics, education, sex, raising families, and personal interactions without reverence all produce the same result: human beings using other human beings."
I could keep typing quotes from this chapter in his book because it is so important to me especially right now. In my opinion our world needs more reverence. Yes, we most definitely need more love, less hate and less divisiveness and that starts with reverence. As a society we have bought into the model of fear hook line and sinker. We operate from a place of fear and scarcity, that it's a dog-eat-dog world to justify our appalling behavior toward each other and toward the earth.
No matter which side of the fence you look at it seems as though reverence is missing. People are labeled, dehumanized, and viciously attacked both verbally and physically all in the name of "a solution". It lacks reverence. It hurts my heart deeply and it probably hurts yours too.
If we are reverent, we would not harm life. The reverent person is a spiritual person who sees Divinity in all forms of life and honors it. Imagine what life would be like if we held it with reverence.
re- word-forming element meaning "back to the original place; again, anew, once more," also with a sense of "undoing,"
ver- meaning truth, true and genuine.
ence- meaning action or process.
Author Gary Zukav states in his book The Seat of the Soul, "We look upon each other as prey to satisfy our emotional and physical needs. We say, 'It's a dog-eat-dog world,' and that to survive in it we must take advantage of others before they take advantage of us. We look upon Life as a contest that produces winners and losers, and we feel no restraints upon us when the needs of other people or other groups threaten us."
He goes on to say, "Our behavior and values are so much shaped by perceptions that lack reverence that we do not know what it is like to be reverent. When we curse a competitor or strive to disempower another person, we absent ourselves from reverence. When we work to take instead of to give, we labor without reverence. When we strive for safety at the expense of another person's safety, we deprive ourselves of the protection of reverence. When we judge one person as superior and another as inferior we depart from reverence. When we judge ourselves, we do the same thing. Business, politics, education, sex, raising families, and personal interactions without reverence all produce the same result: human beings using other human beings."
I could keep typing quotes from this chapter in his book because it is so important to me especially right now. In my opinion our world needs more reverence. Yes, we most definitely need more love, less hate and less divisiveness and that starts with reverence. As a society we have bought into the model of fear hook line and sinker. We operate from a place of fear and scarcity, that it's a dog-eat-dog world to justify our appalling behavior toward each other and toward the earth.
No matter which side of the fence you look at it seems as though reverence is missing. People are labeled, dehumanized, and viciously attacked both verbally and physically all in the name of "a solution". It lacks reverence. It hurts my heart deeply and it probably hurts yours too.
If we are reverent, we would not harm life. The reverent person is a spiritual person who sees Divinity in all forms of life and honors it. Imagine what life would be like if we held it with reverence.
re- word-forming element meaning "back to the original place; again, anew, once more," also with a sense of "undoing,"
ver- meaning truth, true and genuine.
ence- meaning action or process.
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