When do you bow your head and when do you raise your head as reverence?
I have followed many spiritual paths. They have all led me to the same place – my heart.
I have thought about all the times I look up, look down, or look straight ahead. Amazingly, I have discovered that each of my paths has me looking in a direction, yet all the directions show me the light within.
When I come to Buddha, I place my hands on my heart, look straight ahead, and smile.
When I come to Christ, I genuflect, make the sign of the cross, and raise my head and am often filled with tears of gratitude.
When I come to Mother Earth, I spread my arms, invoke my prayers, and bow my head as a sign of reciprocity.
I honor all these paths as One. Opening, raising, and bowing to the Light in me: the Buddha, the Christ, and the Sacred Earth that lives in me as me.
OM. Shanti. Amen. Aho.