Full Idea
Reverence is awareness of a value which demolishes my self-love.
Gist of Idea
Reverence is awareness of a value which demolishes my self-love
Source
Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals [1785], 401.16 n)
Book Reference
Kant,Immanuel: 'The Moral Law (Groundwork of Morals)', ed/tr. Paton,H.J. [Hutchinson 1948], p.67
A Reaction
Presumably simple love of someone or something could achieve this, without the addition of reverence. I'm suspicious of this idea, because some dreadful people have commanded reverence.