grace – The Awakened Dreamer

You are a Dandelion Ready to Blow Apart

Do you imagine the you who thinks it wants to experience enlightenment is solid? That this identity is as dense as say, a block of wood or a boulder? Because if your fictional self is getting ready to let go, once and for all, it’s really more like a dandelion gone to seed. Sure, you […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Five Life-Saving Soul Lessons from the Dark Side

It’s the winter solstice, the time of the nadir. It’s a time, when, if you dare, you can mine the depths of your soul for the numinous vein that runs so deep under only the bravest hearts risk the bottomless depths to take this divine treasure home. I’m no stranger to depth mining precipitous dark […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Be a Superconductor of Grace

Day 24: Open yourself to being an instrument for the divine. It’s what you were born for. — This poem by St Francis of Assisi is the heart of today’s challenge: Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

5 Reasons a Teacher can be Good for Your Post-Awakening No-Self

“If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland — Disclaimer: While at the time this was written statements in this article were true for me, I’ve since discovered a ‘guru’ can also be a reason to hide from my own inner-teacher and truth. […]