According to Osho, respect and reverence are as far apart as earth and sky: respect is formal, learned, and socially conditioned—an outer bow driven by fear, authority, or habit; reverence is informal, alive, and spontaneous—an inner bow arising from your own being. True spirituality abandons hypnotic rituals and responds only when the heart genuinely moves.
Respect is a taught, polite bow; reverence is your heart bowing by itself when it really feels love or wonder.