Your Personality Is an Earth Suit: Gary Zukav on the Practice of Reverence
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Gary Zukav discusses the concept of reverence and the distinction between essence and appearance in human experience.
Join the Seat of the Soul monthly newsletter and receive weekly, wisdom filled, insights from Gary: https://seatofthesoul.com/soul-connections-newsletter/ In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explores reverence as the experience of perceiving beyond appearance and into essence, a direct, essence-to-essence contact with a person, an animal, a plant, or any living thing. He explains that an unprecedented new consciousness is transforming the human species, and that every moment offers a choice between two inner worlds: one rooted in gratitude, patience, and contentment, and one rooted in anger, worry, and despair. Gary illustrates the difference between essence and appearance through the image of a beloved friend showing up to a dinner party in an outfit you don't care for. He explains that what someone wears has nothing to do with who they are, their joys, challenges, and aspirations, and that as a person becomes multisensory, they begin to experience themselves as a soul wearing a personality, rather than being their personality. The invitation is simple: recognize the personality, with all its attributes, as an "earth suit" that the soul adopts and uses for a period of time to…
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