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The approach of reverence can only come from deep within. People have completely forgotten what reverence truly means and how it is felt. Reverence means approaching reality with the heart of a child – not calculatingly, not cunningly, not trying to analyze, but full of awe and an inexhaustible sense of wonder… a sense of the surrounding mystery, the presence of the hidden, with the feeling that things are not what they seem. It means that the apparent, the visible, is only the periphery, that beyond the apparent visibility lies something immeasurably important.
When a child runs after a butterfly, they are in a state of reverence. Or when they suddenly find a path or see a flower – an unremarkable, ordinary flower, but the child stands before its wonder in deep amazement. Or when they see a snake: they are so surprised, there is so much energy in them. Every moment brings a new surprise. The child takes nothing for granted – that is the approach of reverence.
Never take anything for granted. By taking anything for granted, you become stagnant. The child disappears, the sense of wonder dies, and when there is no sense of wonder in the heart, there can be no reverence. Reverence means that life is so mysterious that it is impossible to fully understand it. It transcends understanding; all our efforts are futile. And the more we try to know life, the more unknowable it seems.
Osho
When a child runs after a butterfly, they are in a state of reverence. Or when they suddenly find a path or see a flower – an unremarkable, ordinary flower, but the child stands before its wonder in deep amazement. Or when they see a snake: they are so surprised, there is so much energy in them. Every moment brings a new surprise. The child takes nothing for granted – that is the approach of reverence.
Never take anything for granted. By taking anything for granted, you become stagnant. The child disappears, the sense of wonder dies, and when there is no sense of wonder in the heart, there can be no reverence. Reverence means that life is so mysterious that it is impossible to fully understand it. It transcends understanding; all our efforts are futile. And the more we try to know life, the more unknowable it seems.
Osho