Reverence Protects Life - Gary Zukav
As you work toward becoming reverent, your tendencies toward harming others
and other forms of life diminish. As you acquire a sense of reverence, you
develop the capacity to think more deeply about the value of Life before you
commit your energy to action. When you are fully reverent, you cannot harm Life,
even (if/)though you are unempowered. Without reverence the experience of being
unempowered can become a very cruel one because a dis-empowered person is a
frightened person, and a frightened person is a person with no sense of
reverence, he or she will harm or kill indiscriminately.
Reverence is a level of protection and honor about the process of life so
while a person is maturing toward the journey and through the journey of
authentic empowerment, he or she harms nothing. Because we have no reverence,
our journey to empowerment often includes the experience of victimizing life.
Therefore, there are victims and victimizers. The process of destroying Life
while we are learning about Life that has characterized our evolution would
cease, or at least would be very different if we approached Life with a quality
of reverence.
It is because(/when) we have no sense of reverence, no true belief in the
holiness of all of Life, that Life is destroyed and tortured, brutalized,
starved, and maimed while we journey from unempowerment to empowerment. If a
sense of reverence were brought into the process of evolution, then as each of
us, and our species, moves through the cycle of being unempowered to becoming
empowered, the many learnings that are contained within that growing process of
evolution would not likely produce violence and fear to the extent that it is
now experienced.
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If we perceived Life with Reverence and understood the evolutionary
process, we would stand in awe at the experience of the physical Life, and walk
Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.
About the Author: The above is excerpted from "Seat of the Soul." Gary
Zukav is a renowned American spiritual teacher and the author of four
consecutive New York Times Best Sellers. Gary now works through The Seat of the
Soul Institute, which assists people across the world in creating meaning and
purpose, creativity and health, joy and love.
