Core Insight:
According to Osho, reverence does transcend jealousy-laced respect: respect is ambition-driven and secretly envies what can be seized—power, wealth, status—so it carries hostility. Reverence recognizes in the other a mirror of one’s own intrinsic nature, something unstealable and only learnable. Meeting the enlightened, reverence arises because they reveal what we already are; thus no comparison, no rivalry, only gratitude and learning.