"Regarding" demands awareness and takes energy.
Kevin A. Codd has this to say about Le Regard (To the Field of Stars: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela):
The French existentialists write much about le regard, the look, as a fundamental principle of human relationships. If I remember my philosophy classes from years ago, good regard makes another person or thing a subject in relationship with me. The other is no longer then just an object, an "it," something outside of me, the existentialists say. It makes you and me an us. Bad regard or no regard keeps us trapped in a loveless and meaningless world where no one ever knows anyone... Regarding is one of the best lessons I am slowly learning on this road. Truly looking at things, beholding, appreciating, pondering, allowing them into me; this is what happens when I notice a flower or a person or talk to an old statue of Santiago in a niche somewhere.
I don't have to wait to walk the Camino. How can I practice "Le Regard" today?
Be present in the "naked now." If so, we realize that we are all in relationship as part of the same One. There is no "other", no thou and I, only we.
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