Sangha of Auspicious Companions

The Two Sides of Grace

At twenty years old, Christopher Lowman sat down with an Ayurvedic doctor in London who did nothing but listen to his pulse — and then began describing his inner life with an accuracy that had no business being possible. Something shattered in that moment. And his near-perfect GPA as well as his path to law school went with it. What followed was not a plan but a series of open doors: healing arts on the Upper West Side, genocide survivors in Rwanda, leprosy communities in Ahmedabad, a school in one of Nairobi’s harshest slums that has now educated more than 20,000 children. Then came seven years of severe systemic Lyme disease that stripped away his strength and independence. “Everything I had called mine — my gifts, my strength, my abilities — was never a possession. It was a loan,” Christopher realized. What surfaced was the realization that grace isn’t just the good things that happen to you — it’s everything that shapes you into a higher version of yourself.

Be The Change

Sit quietly for five minutes and recall one moment when you were genuinely helped by someone — a stranger, a friend, a coincidence that felt like more. Write it down in a single paragraph, as specifically as you can. Then consider: what small gesture could you offer today that mirrors that same quality of presence or generosity to someone in your orbit?