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Life Living ItselfWhy Isn’t Awakening Simple and Easy?Recorded March 26, 2025, approximately 43 mins in length. Join Susanne Marie and Connie (Ma Prem Zareen), in an exploratory and lively discussion about how we come about waking up to Truth, and what it takes to have awakening live in a grounded way. We touch on a variety of subjects, with the focus being about the naturalness of waking up, and the importance of looking at one’s conditioning (both collective & individual). Ma Prem …
The post Why Isn’t Awakening Simple and Easy? appeared first on Susanne Marie.2025-04-0643 minLife Living ItselfPierre and Susanne’s Conversation on AwakeningRecorded January 2025, 1 hour, 23 minutes long. A relaxed conversation between two friends touching on a variety of interesting topics pertaining to awakening. Pierre Richard is a saxophone player and teacher, and a dedicated spiritual practitioner who lives in Montreal, Canada. Topics contained in this podcast range from the different types of bliss, to the varieties of teachers’ transmissions that exist, including those to avoid. We also discuss the importance of preserving your life …
The post Pierre and Susanne’s Conversation on Awakening appeared first on Susanne Marie.2025-01-251h 22Life Living ItselfYour Unique Spiritual Map | Evolutionary GrowthThis clip is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat from May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.” Where are you at on your own spiritual map? The more you give yourself to what it is you are wanting spiritually, the more support you receive from the divine. What makes one unaware of Being, is the sense that it is covered over by content. Awakening is your spirit essence becoming conscious of itself, and then having that awareness liberate all …
The post Your Unique Spiritual Map | Evolutionary Growth appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-09-1929 minLife Living ItselfGuided Meditation: What Can You Set Down TodayWhat would you like to be done with? What has been weighing on you, and you would like to set down today? This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.” The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.
The post Guided Meditation: What Can You Set Down Today appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-08-2917 minLife Living ItselfGuided Meditation: Mantra Soham PracticeEnter into the silence in-between the gaps of your thinking mind, by using a Sanskrit seed mantra. Soham is translated as: I am That. This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.” The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.
The post Guided Meditation: Mantra Soham Practice appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-08-2931 minLife Living ItselfGuided Meditation: Everything Follows the Breath ~ Welcoming & ReleasingThe natural flow of one’s breath is an ever present invitation to be renewed. With the in-breath we invite fresh vital life-force energy, and with the outgoing breath, one can release what is not needed or useful, back to the uncreated. This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.” The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.
The post Guided Meditation: Everything Follows the Breath ~ Welcoming & Releasing appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-08-2911 minLife Living ItselfThe Essence of Non-Duality ~ Practical Pointers for AwakeningIn this Open Circle Center Hosted Online Meeting, Susanne walks one through landing in the here and now firstly in the body, then placing attention on the power of noticing, leading to awareness being aware of itself. Whether you are an advanced practitioner, or newly entering the spiritual stream, one can always use the simple (yet profound), essential practice of resting one’s attention on presence. As you may know, what we sincerely give our attention …
The post The Essence of Non-Duality ~ Practical Pointers for Awakening appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-08-221h 00Life Living ItselfMeditation on Awake Mind ~ An Invitation for a New BeginningLearning how to be true to oneself rather than giving over to how one imagines one should behave, helps one to align to Truth. Remain home within yourself, and see what kind of response comes from there. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s Truth Unveiled May 2024 Crestone Retreat. You may purchase the entire 7 night retreat package on her Premium audio page.
The post Meditation on Awake Mind ~ An Invitation for a New Beginning appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-08-1605 minLife Living ItselfBreath’s Rhythm Contains a TeachingA skill worthy of learning has to do with noticing the natural in and outgoing of your breath. With the in-breath, we are here and exist, and with the out-breath, we let go and release into emptiness. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s May Truth Unveiled 2024 Crestone Retreat. You may purchase the entire 7 night retreat package on her Premium audio page.
The post Breath’s Rhythm Contains a Teaching appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-08-1513 minLife Living ItselfNoticing Without IIn this meditation, Susanne walks one through the steps of how to drop below identification via being in awareness of noticing. Noticing without interpretation is a doorway to freedom and is something one can practice. This meditation was especially loved by those who attended Susanne’s Taos retreat. Recorded live at Susanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022.
The post Noticing Without I appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-08-0156 minLife Living ItselfNoticing Without IIn this meditation, Susanne Walks one through the steps of how to drop below indentification via being awareness of noticing. Noticing without interpretation is a doorway to freedom and is something once can practice. This meditation was especially well loved by those who attended Susanne Taos retreat.
Recorded life at Sisanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022
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2024-08-0113 minLife Living ItselfThe Felt Sense of PresenceIn this guided meditation, you are invited to tune into what presence feels like in the body via the sensing body. This helps ground presence consciously so that one can know what awareness is not only in an abstract way through the mind, but also in an understandably direct and sensorially manner via the body.
This audio as well as the video titled: Non-Dual Awakening of the Body, are taken from an online 4-part course titles: Focused Practices to Help you Awaken.
Available for sale under Susanne’s Premium Audio Page: https://susannemarie.org/premium-audio/...2024-08-0113 minLife Living ItselfSoham Meditation PracticeIn this meditation, Susanne walks one through sinking into the aliveness of presence by using a simple, yet powerful, Sanskrit seed mantra: Soham (I am That). This clip is taken from an online 4 – part series titled: Focused Spiritual Practice Support Sessions. The entire series is available for sale under Susanne’s Premium Audio page.
The post Soham Meditation Practice appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-07-0432 minLife Living ItselfCrisis, Transformation & IntegrationSusanne and friends exploring the topic of how the impact of crisis can be met within the realm of awakening. Living our daily lives under ordinary conditions, when the unexpected never materializes and is very far from our active mind, often doesn’t reveal undiscovered territory within one’s conditioning. This reveals itself in its full, if often unwanted, glory when a major incident takes place. The opportunity held within such times of one’s life unearths hidden …
The post Crisis, Transformation & Integration appeared first on Susanne Marie.2024-02-051h 36Life Living ItselfSpiritual Practice Support Sessions (4 of 4)This is the 4th meeting of the Spiritual Practice Support sessions (a 4-part series), where Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. Topics include: Trauma & Healing Difference between psychological techniques & being self-led The power of being direct The elemental energy of anger Healthy boundaries The full length audio recordings of this series are for sale in the store.
The post Spiritual Practice Support Sessions (4 of 4) appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-12-221h 23Life Living ItselfGuided Meditation By Susanne Marie: AlchemyThe rise and fall of the sense of you emerges out of the vast ocean of Self. Dropping below labels and becoming the dancing molecules of vibration, allows you to become more diffused with your sense of self, opening you up to inner harmonization and liberation. The true meaning of alchemy is going from the gross to the subtle, and the transformational process that ensues. Recorded live at Susanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022.
The post Guided Meditation By Susanne Marie: Alchemy appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-11-1618 minLife Living ItselfThere is No Center to MeThe first step in non-dual realization is discovering that there is no center to the sense of ‘me’. This understanding grows the more we let go into the unknown. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non Duality. Available for purchase on Susanne’s website under Premium Audio. www.susannemarie.org
The post There is No Center to Me appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-11-1611 minLife Living ItselfA Period of DeconstructionFor many there is a transitional time between feeling like a ‘doer’ and living life without having a sense of self. This is a period of deconstruction where what we have taken to be falsely true about ourselves and the world goes through a filtering process, so that what is real can emerge and be lived. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non-Duality. Available for sale under Premium Audio on Susanne’s website. …
The post A Period of Deconstruction appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-11-1605 minLife Living ItselfWhat was Awakening like as a parent? Part 6 of 6 Interview SeriesIn this final conversation with CLJ, Susanne speaks about parenting during the time of her awakening period as the deconstructing of her personal self was taking place. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
The post What was Awakening like as a parent? Part 6 of 6 Interview Series appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-11-1609 minLife Living ItselfGuided Meditation by Susanne Marie: Light of AwarenessA guided meditation pointing out the fact that awareness is always here. Recorded live at Susanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022. www.susannemarie.org
The post Guided Meditation by Susanne Marie: Light of Awareness appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-11-1023 minLife Living ItselfWhat is different about your expereince post Awakening: Part 5 of 6 Interview SeriesIn this interview segment, Susanne speaks about the various dimensional and tranformative shifts in her spiritual journey. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
The post What is different about your expereince post Awakening: Part 5 of 6 Interview Series appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-11-1011 minLife Living ItselfObjectifying Self & SpiritIn this video clip, Susanne speaks on the process of how the feeling of separation arises within, creating a sense of being a person. She also touches on how forgetting our intrinsic oneness is a collective pain that we all share, leading to feeling disconnected from life, and that pain can be a doorway to exploring what is true. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non Duality. Available for purchase on Susanne’s …
The post Objectifying Self & Spirit appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-11-1009 minLife Living ItselfRemembering Comes From WithinIn this excerpt from an online meeting “Living Non-Duality”, Susanne breaks down non-duality and how the feeling of being separate arises. She points out that the remedy for self-forgetfulness lives within each person. The full meeting audio recording is available for purchase in Premium Audio.
The post Remembering Comes From Within appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-11-1009 minLife Living ItselfHow do we forget who we are: Part 2 of 6 an Interview SeriesThe ability to self-reflect creates the sense of being a ‘me’. In this interview, Susanne breaks down how this occurs, and why it is important to look at oneself and life without the filter of a ‘self’. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
The post How do we forget who we are: Part 2 of 6 an Interview Series appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-10-1809 minLife Living ItselfWhat is Spiritual Awakening: Part 1 of 6 an Interview SeriesIn this interview, Susanne breaks down what spiritual realization is, touching on the different levels of awakening and the organic unfoldment that takes place. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au
The post What is Spiritual Awakening: Part 1 of 6 an Interview Series appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-10-1810 minLife Living ItselfThe Wisdom of BoundariesAudio clip (Part 1 of 4) taken from Susanne’s 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page. Susanne Marie
The post The Wisdom of Boundaries appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-10-0216 minLife Living ItselfBeyond OrdinaryThe more we deepen within ourselves, the less we naturally hold back from living as a simple expression of ordinariness. Remaining on the edge of curiosity, helps keep things fresh and full of nuance, within one’s everyday routines of life. Audio clip taken from a Spiritual Practice Support Group session. Susanne Marie
The post Beyond Ordinary appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-10-0225 minLife Living ItselfTruth’s Guiding LightAudio clip taken from Susanne’s 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page. Susanne Marie
The post Truth’s Guiding Light appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-10-0224 minLife Living ItselfRadiantly SovereignAudio clip taken from Susanne’s 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page Susanne Marie
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The post Malevolent & Benevolent Energies appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-10-0216 minLife Living ItselfGuided Meditation: Entering into the Embodied Fullness of this MomentA subtle meditation walking one through feeling into sensation and the energetic signature of what we contain inside. This helps break down the solid sense of self, opening one up to the emptiness contained within form. Susanne Marie
The post Guided Meditation: Entering into the Embodied Fullness of this Moment appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-10-0229 minLife Living ItselfDon’t Know MindSomething magical takes place when mind rests in the gap created by ‘don’t know mind’. Within this gap lies the unconditioned. Audio clip taken from the online meeting: Befriending the Unknown Available for sale under Premium Audio. Susanne Marie
The post Don’t Know Mind appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-10-0216 minLife Living Itself3rd Spiritual Practice Support 3 of 4This is the third audio meeting of the 3rd Spiritual Practice Support Group of 2022 (a 4-part series), whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 4-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events
The post 3rd Spiritual Practice Support 3 of 4 appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-09-051h 19Life Living ItselfThe Nuance of AwakeningDropping Labels, and opening up to the vastness of what we contain, allows for an open-hearted acceptance of all that arises. In this way, the psuh/pull of indentification falls away, including the separate self-sense. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s recent Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life.
The post The Nuance of Awakening appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-08-1522 minLife Living ItselfSincerity is KeyLife is an uncompromising teacher, and she only wants the highest level of truth. We get what we most want when it comes to living in an aithentic way, and aligining with our true nature, is how we progress forward. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s recent Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life.
The post Sincerity is Key appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-08-1516 minLife Living ItselfMaya is Our TeacherUltimate fulfilment is not to be found outside of ourselves. It is up to each person to break the trance of being outwardly focused to the point of self-forgetfulness. the wrold of form (Maya), is a beautiful aspect of God. But we are not meant to become lost in it. Rather we are meant to dance with her from a place of integrated wholeness. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s recent Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship …
The post Maya is Our Teacher appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-08-1509 minLife Living ItselfInvoking Heart WisdomIn this audio clip, Susanne speaks directly to the unconditional heart, asking for its loving support. The heart is a center of intelligence, and it contains a very clear guidance system. One can learn how to engage the heart energetically, and have heart co-arise with whatever we are encountering, both within as well as with life situations. This assists one in dropping the experience of inner division, as the heart arises from wholeness. Audio clip …
The post Invoking Heart Wisdom appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-07-2513 minLife Living ItselfDemystifying SpiritualityWe are a seamless part of the wholeness of life, and remembering this timeless truth, is our birthright. Underneath layers of imagination, fear, and doubt, lies our true heart, clarity of vision, and authentic self. Awakening is the invitation to return home to the natural state. It is an undoing of beliefs, rather than an accumulation. In this meeting, Susanne deconstructs how we get in our own way, helping to uncover the simplicity of our …
The post Demystifying Spirituality appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-06-301h 30Life Living ItselfDance of TwoIn this spring 2022 public meeting clip held in Sebastopol, California, Susanne speaks about the beauty of longing and its place in one’s spiritual journey back to wholeness. She also touches on how to view ego as a movement in consciousness, something that one can feel into and help dissolve, and not as an actual entity, (which entrenches separation).
The post Dance of Two appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-04-1416 minLife Living ItselfSpiritual Practice Support 1 of 4This is the first audio meeting of the Spiritual Practice Support Group of 2022 (a 4-part series), whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 4-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events
The post Spiritual Practice Support 1 of 4 appeared first on Susanne Marie.2022-01-201h 20Life Living ItselfSpiritual Practice Support Part 1 (of 5)This is the first meeting of a 5-part series, whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travellers, answering questions in depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 5-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events
The post Spiritual Practice Support Part 1 (of 5) appeared first on Susanne Marie.2021-07-121h 17Life Living ItselfThe Journey of Awakening from Self-Centered Consciousness to No-SelfUsing Bernadette Roberts’ map as a way to understand the spiritual journey, Susanne Marie describes the evolution from self-centered consciousness to No-self.
The post The Journey of Awakening from Self-Centered Consciousness to No-Self appeared first on Susanne Marie.2021-07-0609 minLife Living ItselfGuided Meditation: To help you open your heartA guided meditation from Susanne Marie to help open your heart. Excerpted from Awareness Explorers podcast Episode 46 “Susanne Marie, Guest Explorer.” Awareness Explorers YouTube Channel
The post Guided Meditation: To help you open your heart appeared first on Susanne Marie.2019-12-2909 minLife Living ItselfBrian O’Connor and Jonathan Robinson with Awareness Explorers interview Susanne Marie‘In this episode we talk to Susanne Marie about the experiences of unity and of “no self,” and the role that the heart and softening have in awakening. Includes a guided meditation from Susanne Marie to help open your heart.’ Awareness Explorers YouTube Channel
The post Brian O’Connor and Jonathan Robinson with Awareness Explorers interview Susanne Marie appeared first on Susanne Marie.2019-12-2958 minLife Living ItselfEmptiness and Fullness: A Guided MeditationA guided meditation with techniques on how to live a balanced life. By opening to the emptiness contained within all experience, as well as learning how to feel into form, we are able to learn how to live in harmony within ourselves and with life.
The post Emptiness and Fullness: A Guided Meditation appeared first on Susanne Marie.2019-06-1736 minLife Living ItselfThe Wisdom of No EscapeSometimes the only way to be free of something is to allow yourself to be fully trapped. Our desire to escape suffering creates it’s own bondage. Most of us are intially drawn to spirituality with the understandable desire to feel better and in general to be released from suffering. But this desire in itself playes into the belief that something needs to be done about how we are feeling. that we need to somehow disappear …
The post The Wisdom of No Escape appeared first on Susanne Marie.2019-05-151h 50Life Living ItselfThe Heart of CompassionThe journey of opening to the suffering of others begins with ourselves. Compassion blossoms with the realization that we are the one responsible for allowing our own hearts to open, and that turning towards our pain rather than away is the key. Once we have the strength to embrace ourselves as we are, then this ability naturally turns outwards to include the pain of others in our world.
The post The Heart of Compassion appeared first on Susanne Marie.2019-03-081h 51Life Living ItselfThe Path of Devotion.Without the engagement of our hearts our spiritual and life journey is dry and barren. Devotion is the ability to reach outside of ourselves with trust that something greater exists than what we ourselves know or understand. This something is the mystery of existence itself. It is divinty inherent within all things. When we lean into trust that there is a greater intelligence guiding our lives, we are able to let go of our limited …
The post The Path of Devotion. appeared first on Susanne Marie.2019-01-131h 54Life Living ItselfWhat is Realization?Beyond descriptions of enlightenment or realization lies the lived experience of what we are in truth, right now. And right Now there is the immediate accessibility to be present, open, and aware. Together we will explore what is the direct experience of being awake: Here and Now.
The post What is Realization? appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-12-201h 53Life Living ItselfBeing Awake NowBeyond descriptions of enlightenment or awakening lies the lived experience of what we are in truth, right now. And right now there is the immediate accessibility to be present, open, and aware. Together we will explore what is the direct experience of being awake: Here and Now.
The post Being Awake Now appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-12-031h 42Life Living ItselfFrom Fear to LoveOur surivival as a species requires us to make a leap from fear to love. Making things that are ignorant within ourselves, conscious, is an act of love and courage, and is the greatest transformative unifying power on Earth.
The post From Fear to Love appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-11-062h 01Life Living ItselfQuestions & Answers in BudapestWhen the inquiry ‘who am I’ naturally arises. The difference between being ‘Being led’ and mind led.
The post Questions & Answers in Budapest appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-10-2420 minLife Living ItselfThe Truth About AwakeningA candid conversation with Gabor Harsanyi and Nurit Oren and their guests – Susanne Marie and Pierre Richard – about the various pitfalls and misconceptions surrounding awakening. They clarify what awakening really is, as opposed to what we imagine or expect it to be, and expound on the peace that is naturally ours when we open to what IS and apply simplicity.
The post The Truth About Awakening appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-10-231h 09Life Living ItselfLiving Beyond Unity: A Conscious.TV InterviewA new interview with Renate McNay and Susanne Marie Filmed in London September 2018. In this interview, Susanne maps out her spiritual unfolding with three distinctly different types of realizations. First the mind woke up to itself (awareness becoming aware of itself), then the heart opened (unity consciousness), and finally the body released itself of identity.
The post Living Beyond Unity: A Conscious.TV Interview appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-10-2358 minLife Living ItselfMeeting In BudapestAn opening talk with Susanne Marie, with Hungarian translation. Take the time to let the words sink while the translation is taking place. The space allows for the simple truth and silence behind the words to enter.
The post Meeting In Budapest appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-10-1524 minLife Living ItselfNourishment for the Soul: A Guided MeditationDropping everything we think we know, we enter into purely experiencing that which is in praise of itself. Taken from a Seattle weekend intensive.
The post Nourishment for the Soul: A Guided Meditation appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-09-2723 minLife Living ItselfTruth is SimpleThe simplicity of our true nature is easily overlooked and discounted as it is the only thing which doesn’t pull on our attention. We enter the kingdom within ourselves quietly and humbly through our inherent innocence. This audio is taken from a Seattle weekend intensive with Susanne.
The post Truth is Simple appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-09-2740 minLife Living ItselfThe Timeless DimensionThere is a force within that knows how to live this life. Learning how to attune and open to what is intelligently guiding life is accessing the same power that is guiding the universe. Life in its intelligence knows what it is doing. When we open to what surrender really is, we leave the need to control behind and open to what the beauty of allowance and trust offers.
The post The Timeless Dimension appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-09-081h 28Life Living ItselfIn conversation with NW Spiritual LivingSharing with you a delightful conversation with Danny and Sherry who are part of a wonderful Sangha in Seattle. The topics in this audio include: * The human experience. * Open vs. awakened- the use of language. * What I feel is my greatest contribution. * What is transmission? * Defining moment of emerging as a spiritual ‘teacher’. * Spiritual experiences in childhood. * Possible pitfalls along the spiritual path. * Sudden vs. gradual awakening. …
The post In conversation with NW Spiritual Living appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-05-211h 05Life Living ItselfLife ChallengesGrace Bubeck talks with Susanne Marie – Life challenges is a new series of live online conversations with non-dual spiritual teachers who are dealing with challenging situations in their own lives. The intention of these conversations is to invite teachers to share their experience and their reflections openly and candidly so that this can serve as a model and teaching to all of us as to how life challenges can be met in an aware …
The post Life Challenges appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-04-201h 27Life Living ItselfThe Feminine Principle: An Evolutionary NecessityA deep and delightful exchange with Nurit and Gabor Harsanyi – about the importance of recognizing the essential nature of the feminine principle… especially in the act/non-act of shifting into awakening.
The post The Feminine Principle: An Evolutionary Necessity appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-01-2053 minLife Living ItselfThe Power of Self-Knowing: An Open Circle Online MeetingWhy do we dim the light of our knowing? Why do we give power away to authorities outside ourselves, forgetting that we hold access to direct knowing through the inherent intelligence of our own light of awareness? Perhaps now is the time to consider connecting to the power of self-direction and inner wisdom, a birthright with which we have all been graced, rather than keeping the light of self-knowing dimmed. Together we will explore the …
The post The Power of Self-Knowing: An Open Circle Online Meeting appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-01-161h 47Life Living ItselfBeing a Light Unto OneselfNurit speaks with Spiritual Mentor Susanne Marie about the impact of lineage and what to watch out for in the spiritual arena. The two shed light from their own experiences and encourage “Being” as opposed to following blindly a mind-based teaching. For information about Nurit, please visit treeofsilence.com.
The post Being a Light Unto Oneself appeared first on Susanne Marie.2018-01-0251 minLife Living ItselfMeeting in Binghamton, N.Y.A deep and enjoyable meeting touching on a range of topics such as the nature of seeking, engaging the heart, awareness practice and more, with a mature non-dual group which meets regularly with therapist and teacher Michael Hall in Binghamton, N.Y.
The post Meeting in Binghamton, N.Y. appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-11-051h 45Life Living ItselfExperiencing Life As It Is: The Natural StateWhen we live directly without an interpretive filter, we live the ‘now’ in each moment, naturally. Recording is from the August 2017 online meeting.
The post Experiencing Life As It Is: The Natural State appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-08-151h 58Life Living ItselfHow to Open NaturallyThrough the vehicle of our senses we can naturally learn how to open to a vaster intelligence – one that is undefinable and unlimited. Taken from Susanne’s latest online meeting.
The post How to Open Naturally appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-07-271h 48Life Living ItselfMoving Beyond the Boundaries of the Personal SelfWe discuss the non-localized self. When we expand beyond the boundaries of the personal self we naturally experience our inter-connectedness with one another and with all of life.
The post Moving Beyond the Boundaries of the Personal Self appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-06-262h 06Life Living ItselfOpen Circle Online Easter MeetingIn this Easter Sunday talk, I begin with the theme of the Kingdom of Heaven within. We discuss having the attention take a 180 degree turn, and the value of living outer life on the foundation of inner realization.
The post Open Circle Online Easter Meeting appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-05-251h 54Life Living ItselfIntimacy With All Things: Open Circle MeetingThe more we hold ourselves back from life, the less we know ourselves as the Totality.
The post Intimacy With All Things: Open Circle Meeting appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-04-211h 32Life Living ItselfNot Waiting For PerfectionLife is continuously offering us an invitation to embrace this moment and ourselves just as we are. Our messy human lives are an expression of divinity undergoing continuous evolution.
The post Not Waiting For Perfection appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-03-1814 minLife Living ItselfEmbracing Our Dual NatureMoving beyond the myth that awakening frees us of difficult feelings and our shadow. What in fact occurs is that we learn to open to and embrace our shadow and unconscious as they are.
The post Embracing Our Dual Nature appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-03-1311 minLife Living ItselfWhat is My Life’s Purpose?This type of question often arises out of a confusion of where to place our attention. The secret is: Not to place attention so much on oneself! We complicate our lives with overthinking and analyzing, rather than learning how to tap into spontaneity and the aliveness of what is needed in any given moment.
The post What is My Life’s Purpose? appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-03-0809 minLife Living ItselfThe World’s Concerns are Our ConcernsWhen we move beyond our own individual concerns and learn to embrace the concerns of others and of the world as our own, the self center that causes so much individual suffering is eased. What becomes revealed is that we are in fact all of life. A deep caring for the whole emerges the more that we realize that we are all interconnected.
The post The World’s Concerns are Our Concerns appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-02-2116 minLife Living ItselfBerkeley Open Circle Meeting: Opening to AllowanceDeeper than our surface preferences, concerns and fears, lies a vast reservoir of allowance. We can learn how to access it by tuning into the heart, whose nature is unconditional acceptance and which holds all polarities comfortably within itself.
The post Berkeley Open Circle Meeting: Opening to Allowance appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-02-081h 22Life Living ItselfThe Unconditional Nature of LoveOur essential nature, which rests prior to all concepts, is unconditioned Being. When our essential nature is known and felt through the heart, life is viewed through the lens of unity. We feel a deep intimacy with everything. In fact, we appreciate that our “own” essential nature and that of everything are one and the same. This manifests in our behavior and experience as allowance, acceptance, welcoming, and a deeply felt intimacy with what is.
The post The Unconditional Nature of Love appeared first on Susanne Marie.2017-01-191h 50Life Living ItselfThe Importance of Being TruthfulLearning how to increasingly tell (relative) truth both to ourselves and to others and as a result, living more authentically, is a doorway to absolute Truth.
The post The Importance of Being Truthful appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-12-291h 55Life Living ItselfStanding On Your Own Two Feet: A Seattle Evening MeetingAn evening meeting with a Seattle non-dual group which was a prequel to a powerful weekend intensive. It takes maturity and a courageous willingness to come to stop looking outside of ourselves for ourselves. Are you ready to stand on your own two feet, stop wavering and go one pointedly towards what you want?
The post Standing On Your Own Two Feet: A Seattle Evening Meeting appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-12-151h 49Life Living ItselfAdyashanti and Susanne Marie on the Falling Away of SelfJoin Susanne Marie and Adyashanti in an exploration about an often misunderstood subject. Beyond the traditional landing places that mind creates (commonly discussed in non-dual circles), lies an indescribable landscape of living as pure, direct experiencing. Prior to this opening, the habitual subjective filter creates a veil of separation of which one is not even aware. This is true even within expanded, unified states of consciousness. Once this filter falls away, life is experienced directly, …
The post Adyashanti and Susanne Marie on the Falling Away of Self appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-11-151h 54Life Living ItselfBerkeley Open Circle Meeting: The Cosmic BodyAs we practice resting in that which is prior to content, we strengthen our capacity to know ourselves as all of creation. But first a solid base needs to be established on which consciousness is no longer glued in identification with what it is focusing on. This broadens one’s capacity to sense into oneself as the whole, no longer solely a personal identity, but knowing oneself as everyone and everything.
The post Berkeley Open Circle Meeting: The Cosmic Body appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-08-231h 33Life Living ItselfWhat Does Meeting in Sacred Mutuality Mean?Life is evolving, asking us to rise up to embrace our inner autonomy and to meet as equals in service to the whole. The old paradigm of a few teachers serving as ‘wisdom holders’ is ebbing. We are transitioning from a hierarchical way of meeting others in Truth with the teacher on top, to an egalitarian one in which we meet in a circle, inviting each another to express our own knowing, gifts, and strengths. …
The post What Does Meeting in Sacred Mutuality Mean? appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-08-181h 57Life Living ItselfSeattle Friday Evening Meeting: Part of a summer weekend intensiveTopics: Learning to develop a sense of what is true, a place inside that is already free of pain and already at peace. Consciousness is indiscriminate. It isn’t driven by will force, so it goes wherever attention is placed. When it is placed on awareness itself, it learns to rest as That. There is an evolution to consciousness that is occurring, we are deepening. The embodiment of spirit into matter is a deepening that consciousness is opening up to. …
The post Seattle Friday Evening Meeting: Part of a summer weekend intensive appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-08-071h 48Life Living ItselfCommunicating AuthenticallyDropping pretense with one another and learning how to communicate authentically serves in supporting an enlivened connection with others. Tuning into ourselves as Natural Beings, as being aspects of nature, serves in helping us remember ourselves and helps bring more joy and aliveness to our lives. The separate self has a feeling tone to it. Learning how to tune into this felt sense helps us thin the veils that creates the felt sense of separation.
The post Communicating Authentically appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-08-0315 minLife Living ItselfThe Natural Undefended SelfA video clip taken from a recent online meeting. Meeting one another from a place of undefended naturalness allows for true communication to occur. The way we listen to one another helps bring what is undivided to the foreground. In this way both our speaking and our listening become one movement creatively sharing communication. The full length audio of the meeting (longer than the video, with questions), is available beneath the video.
The post The Natural Undefended Self appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-08-031h 30Life Living ItselfLiving RealizationThe more we deepen in realization, the more that we see that there is no difference between ourselves and Nature. We are One Being with the Earth, with all creatures large and small. We are One great indivisible whole seeing and meeting each other in Sacred Mutuality. Evolution is at work as each one of us realizes our intrinsic unity with all of Life.
The post Living Realization appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-08-0214 minLife Living ItselfResting as Awareness – Part 2Putting one’s attention on what lies prior to manifestation helps bring pure awareness, which is ordinarily in the background, to the foreground. Then, instead of being addicted and glued to content and as a result, forgetting the Self, the mind can more easily be at peace and in natural harmony with itself and with the rest of the ever-shifting appearance of life.
The post Resting as Awareness – Part 2 appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-07-2146 minLife Living ItselfResting as Awareness – Part 1Putting one’s attention on what lies prior to manifestation helps bring pure awareness, which is ordinarily in the background, to the foreground. Then, instead of being addicted and glued to content and as a result, forgetting the Self, the mind can more easily be at peace and in natural harmony with itself and with the rest of the ever-shifting appearance of life.
The post Resting as Awareness – Part 1 appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-07-2144 minLife Living ItselfTapping into Universal SupportLife is a gracious teacher whereby we learn over time how, in truth, giving and receiving are aspects of one integrated whole which supports the balanced functioning of life. In this video I share an experience I recently had when I went to see Amma, where I received a wonderful direct teaching of how giving and receiving works.
The post Tapping into Universal Support appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-07-1009 minLife Living ItselfDiving into ExperienceHave you noticed that when you really let yourself feel something completely that this one thing fully embraced leads to the totality of existence? The vastness of what we are lies within the minutia. Enter fully into experience and know yourself as That.
The post Diving into Experience appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-07-0610 minLife Living ItselfThe Freedom of Not Knowing – Part 2When we give ourselves the permission to let go into not knowing, relaxing the boundaries of what we take ourselves to be, something magical opens up, and that is our own knowing. In this meeting I invite that knowing to emerge and speak within the group.
The post The Freedom of Not Knowing – Part 2 appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-06-3047 minLife Living ItselfThe Freedom of Not Knowing – Part 1When we give ourselves the permission to let go into not knowing, relaxing the boundaries of what we take ourselves to be, something magical opens up, and that is our own knowing. In this meeting I invite that knowing to emerge and speak within the group.
The post The Freedom of Not Knowing – Part 1 appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-06-3046 minLife Living ItselfBeing a Light Unto Yourself (Audio)Each one of us is the Holy and each one of us has access to the wellspring of innate wisdom. We share the same light and ground of being as did the Buddha, Christ, and all the saints. In essence, no one is more Holy than another.
The post Being a Light Unto Yourself (Audio) appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-06-151h 44Life Living ItselfLiving as Undefined EssenceRelaxing into our natural selves softens our edges, softens the one who is in defense to life. We can move through the world in a relaxed and undefended way. This allows for the natural state to move in, as, and through us. Just like the wind, we are a thing of nature.
The post Living as Undefined Essence appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-05-2609 minLife Living ItselfThere Really is No PersonAll manifested form is empty at its center. This includes what you take yourself to be, a person. Even though it seems like you are the one feeling, thinking, and have a body, in truth this is not so. The power of inquiry and resting in our true nature helps to break the sticky trance that consciousness has regarding its manifested aspect.
The post There Really is No Person appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-05-2613 minLife Living ItselfImmediacy of Experience WebinarMany of us run from that we most want, which is ourselves stripped bare of defense. This moment, raw in its own power, offering no promises of delivery. Here, in this place of simplicity, we find ourselves left without imagination clouding the view.
The post Immediacy of Experience Webinar appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-05-2036 minLife Living ItselfSusanne Marie & Will PyeSusanne Marie and Will Pye discuss the role and nature of ‘Surrender’ in awakening. Video here
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The post Embodiment is Never-Ending appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-03-0256 minLife Living ItselfBuddha at the Gas Pump InterviewRick Archer interviews Susanne Marie on Buddha at the Gas Pump. In Susanne Marie’s first interview, she describes how oneness was already known as a child, and how this awareness slowly and painfully ebbed away resulting in a seeker being born and the story of how this was eventually seen through. Video here.
The post Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-03-021h 26Life Living ItselfLiving from Love Retreat: Susanne MarieThis session is part of the online retreat on ‘Living from Love’. For more information go to: www.living-from-love.com. Video here.
The post Living from Love Retreat: Susanne Marie appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-03-021h 16Life Living ItselfReceiving One Another – Susanne Marie in Dialog with Reenah SunVulnerability is an entry point into the heart of being. As consciousness evolves, we are given ever greater opportunities to turn towards meeting ourselves more fully. The invitation to meet oneself with love eases the transition as we make a shift from operating out of fear into one of moving from love. Video here.
The post Receiving One Another – Susanne Marie in Dialog with Reenah Sun appeared first on Susanne Marie.2016-03-0253 minLife Living ItselfInterview with Friends in PresenceFrom Friends in Presence: “A postcard conversation from two friends in presence, Susanne Marie & Jen Peer Rich talk about recognizing presence in others as actually recognizing the one we all are, and we get down and dirty into the nitty-gritty of presence. We also explore qualities of consciousness coming together in a unique symbiotic intermingling as one love.” Video here.
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