Loveworks!
The Rodan Foundation’s Publication for The Love Awakening
September 2026
The Love Awakening (TLA) is the service arm of The Rodan Foundation. The TLA offers self-empowerment tools and courses designed to help you awaken and reclaim your personal power through positive living. We live the power of love through volunteer efforts supporting the people and the environment in our local and extended communities.
Our mission is to assist humanity in awakening to the power of love. Our intention is to help others awaken to who they truly are and use that awakening for the greater good. Our vision is the collective awakening of humanity, bringing forth harmony and unity for all. Join us as we learn and grow in the ways of living love and loving life!
QUALITIES OF CONSCIOUS LOVE
The first kind of love we are familiar with is the biochemical love, the ‘Let’s make love.’ The second kind is romantic love, ‘Mary loves John, and John loves Mary.’ This second kind of love, romantic love and the need for love, has a polarity, which is hate and which involves jealousy and possessiveness. This kind of love is based on the fact that you don’t yet know who you are. And that the other person involved allows you to meet your true self by turning you on to the place inside yourself where you are love. So you say “he and I” or “she and I are in love,” meaning we connect each other to the place in ourselves where we are love. This is needful love, because you need your connection, and if he or she splits, you can’t find the place in you where you are love. So you get frightened that you’re going to lose your connection.
The third quality of love, or level of love, is conscious love, where you have found that place in yourself and you become it. And you ‘are’ a statement of that love. And your every action is not consciously designed to assert that you love everyone, and everyone loves you, because you ‘are’ love. Then, there is no more need for anyone to love you. All you experience is a feeling of present flow with everyone in the universe. You are in love with the universe. You are not actively loving, but you are ‘in’ love; you exist in the space of conscious love, which is Christ love. That’s what this whole game is about.
There’s no neurosis or need in that. For you to become that, you have to give up the stuff inside of you that keeps you from being it. And the major thing is your self-unworthiness. Most of your personality was built upon your unworthiness. Just let it go. Every time something comes up that makes you feel unworthy, or when you assert your unworthiness, ‘Here, Ma, you eat it. I don’t want it.’ Give it up. Give it up to your Guru; give it up to your guide, ‘Whoever you are, Guru, take it.’
Just try, try to be right here, open, honest, straight; take everything that happens to you and use it in relation to your awakening to God, right here. And when you walk out into the night, take in the feelings in your body, the lights, the walking on the cement, whatever is around you; take it all in, in love. Don’t worship the feelings and don’t run from them. Acknowledge them, allow them; they are all a part of the dance with God. Just play with God, but play in such a way that you get home; don’t play in such a way that you get lost. You get home by remembering; you keep remembering and remembering, again and again you remember. But try not to be so busy remembering that you fall on your face. Strive for the balance of remembering and living and caring. Truth, caring, looking up, looking down. Help all of the beings around you and help yourself.
How do you help yourself and the beings around you? By feeding them, caring about them, and protesting for them. By living your life in a conscious way, in every social role you have, and remembering to look up. Because looking up is what ultimately frees all beings from suffering. Ultimately, you will be able to look at suffering, disease, old age, and death and be able to say, ‘Yes, I understand the flow and process, and here I am.’ Until you are that clear, that conscious, and free, every experience in life is an exercise for getting home; that’s what it’s all about. -Ram Dass, ramdass.org
The "I Love Me" MeditationTM
The "I Love Me" Meditation is a simple and profound heart-centered practice of generating your personal frequency of love. It will teach you how to activate your natural capacity to generate and experience love through conscious awareness and conscious choice. This practice helps us to awaken. It encourages personal empower-ment, greater self-esteem and self-discovery as we learn practical means of replacing fear and negative frequency with the most powerful force in the universe: Love!
The “I Love Me” meditation series and the “Embrace of Acceptance” series are available on the free Insight Timer App. To listen, download the app or visit https://insig.ht/jErOcnXnjub
Upcoming Service Activities and Volunteer Events
OCTOBER SING & SHARE!
Sunday October 11th 1:30 - 2:30
Sunrise Senior Living, 955 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo.
Join with us as we delight and inspire the elders of our community with lively company, silly joke time, and a fun, oldies-but-goodies sing-along with musical accompaniment. Don't sing well? Don't worry! All you need is a heart full of goodness and a smile. Please come live your love with us! Adults and children of all ages are welcome.
The Embrace of LoveTM
The Embrace of LoveTM is a guided meditation series which uses profound philosophy and gentle guidance to deepen your healing relationship with yourself as you are connected with the empowering presence of acceptance. Listen to a free recording on The Love Awakening's website and discover more about our organization and activities: theloveawakening.org
Also....
Experience a video podcast of Rev. Clarke Carraway's inspired Presentation of Truth.
"Like" The Love Awakening on Facebook and join our community.
OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS NOT THAT WE ARE INADEQUATE.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.”
— Marianne Williamson