This word “REVERENCE” keeps showing up for me.
Boyd Varty, author of “A Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life” said, “One thing that has become absolutely clear to me is REVERENCE cannot happen at high speed. It is impossible to be both reverent and in a rush. And so simply the speed of modern life keeps us from deeply respecting it.”
Chelan Harkin, author of several incredible books of poetry, including “Susceptible to Light” said, “…Reverence is true connection. Irreverence is separation. Wonder lives in the land beyond judgement, where our incessant fault finding and fixing of ourselves and the world ceases and a landscape of spaciousness is introduced in your being that allows things to be as they are. This open, accepting ease isn’t passive or permissive, which are still attitudes that come from avoidance, but is a state of relating that rejoins us with the seamless fabric of reality, of oneness, we’ve always been.”
These are guidelines that I’m practicing deeply for myself and in my work with clients.
–> Slow down. Slow everything down, from eating, to breathing, to your pace of walking, talking, and working. Read “Rest is Resistance” to understand why this is so deeply important.
–> Get present. Get present to everything from your breath, to your body, to your Soul. Get present to NATURE most especially. Everything you are seeing is seeing YOU.
–> Notice what’s in your life. Who is in your life. How connected (or not) you are to them. Notice your life FEELS – full, stuffed, overflowing, parched, dry, brittle, itchy, festering, joy-filled, luminous, hot, cold, weird, angsty…just NOTICE.
–> CHOOSE. I’m writing a whole book about choosing. But you cannot choose if you are DO-ing life too fast, if you aren’t present to WHAT you are DO-ing, and if you cannot really NOTICE an aligned, grounded, and centered YES or a NO if you are not PRESENT for and present TO this vitally important act of choosing.
Reverence is a deep respect for someone or something.
What if you started to practice a REVERENCE for LIFE – yours included? I wonder what could then be different, better, more fulfilling?
I’m here for the practice of deeeeeep reverence.
Warmly,
Angie