In his book Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, O’Donhue writes, “What you encounter, recognise or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach….When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us.”
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What we encounter, recognise or discover depends on the quality of our approach. An approach of reverence invites revelation. to pause and reflect on this can make al the difference between living in a cold, detached world, populated primarily by judgments and cynicism, and living in a world suffused with intimacy and offers of communion. When our approach is one of reverence, we find ourselves falling into a deeper embrace with all that is open to encounter, both internally and in the surrounding , breathing world. If we approach superficially, or from a perspective of what can we get out of this exchange, then the encounter will be limited, what we recognise will be thin, and what we discover will be nothing at all. We will simply be meeting our won well-rehearsed stories in the moment.

Francis Weller. “In The Absence Of The Ordinary”.