Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent. (Ursula Goodenough)

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

Ursula Goodenough

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