Awakening Story: An Artist Awakens

A wonderful interview with Violet Richele describing her early life and subsequent awakening. She discusses childhood trauma, challenges of early adulthood, and the process that led her to being free of the illusory boundaries of separation, isolation, and struggle.
If you are interested in contacting Violet, her Website:
www.violet-syn...
Violet’s KZbin Channel:
/ @violetsynergy

[@traceykeary5332]

I could listen to your interactions together for hours. I have wondered what love looks like when awake.

[@marcusfreudenmann4039]

Thank you both so much you beautiful souls. I’ve come home. Love you.

[@johnjacquard863]

the 8th fetter just fell away while listening to this. i didn't know how beautiful your story was or how similar to mine own it is violet. blessings and grattitude to this moment. this video is a priceless gift.

[@stuartmacgregor3719]

Blown away. Heart is on fire. Feel a transmission of permission to let this heart love love love. It’s all that’s ever been wanted. Violet’s clarity openness to “love unapologetically” just wow. I’m deeply moved by her willingness to open so fully and give so fully. The world needs you Violet and here you are! Mother to millions 🙏🏻💗

[@sparkleinco2035]

For me with similar experience, nature has been my healing influence. I am an elder now and still healing and have found my spiritual teachers. I think all of it was the way it was meant to be. I am aware that envy is one of the 7 deadly sins, but I feel it when I see all that you are accomplishing. I have felt like an outsider with so much locked inside me.

[@victoriasallisburg9475]

Didn’t know I could feel such a deep connection with someone through KZbin 😆 Violet is such a beautiful person inside and out. Lots of inspo here! 🙏🏻

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

She is!

[@kardoyle]

Wow !! Me too ! Yes and you tube is a game changer for me ❤❤❤ I love how she pauses and takes her time talking ❤❤❤

[@geraldgarrison1898]

I think it’s absolutely beautiful that you have made a space for people to share their awakening experience. There’s not a lot of space for people to have these conversations. I know that there’s a lot of discussion about waking up going on out in the world but there’s something very different here. It’s seems so genuine and comfortable. It’s not like a teacher and seeker kind of environment but a lovely space where the experience can be shared between people that have the understanding of what is. I hope that makes sense.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I’m glad you recognize that. ❤️

[@geraldgarrison1898]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake the other thing that I appreciate is, no one has to go through the mental gymnastics of using non-duality jargon. Or I heard someone say advaiticly correct. These conversations so pure and heartfelt. This is hard enough to talk about as is.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@geraldgarrison1898 totally agree

[@kristibrown6091]

It means so much to find a space where other people “get you”, ya know? I’m so grateful to Angelo for creating this channel. 🙏🏻☺️

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@kristibrown6091 Glad you're here :))

[@kevinmai2947]

When she was talking about the unwrapping a snicker bar analogy, a taste appeared in my consciousness. Then I felt a bit of fear, then that jump scare happened! Scared the bejeezus out of me!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

!!!

[@dar_jada]

So beautiful. Thank you for sharing. So helpful. Authentic. "Living and loving unapologetically authentically" = no separation. "In love with love." Helps me to see what is possible. I LOVED this conversation. Everyday I am asking myself what am I hiding? Freeing myself from a prison of my own construction. Authenticity=truth=liberation. Analogy of "trust the air" perfect for explaining intuition and instinct. Totally in the moment. Totally present. Comfortable with the unknown sounds so exciting! .

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thanks for watching

[@VioletSynergy]

Absolutely possible !!!!!! 🔑🎆🥰

[@kelliedawn9229]

OMG i was so engulfed in what was being expressed when it bleeped out of reality around 1:12:12 i almost flew out of my chair thinking Oh shit this is it! I got so scared for a second 😅🤭

[@lindagumbleton6569]

Massive thank you to Violet for her pointings on recognising how intuition is the answer to the unspoken prayer of the heart. This came as a direct answer to my journalling enquiry this morning ! ! it was a tailor made insight to a block I have been experiencing. Brilliant the way she linked it to self-enquiry and I feel that my Journalling could be the way I practice self-enquiry. Thank you both so much for your sharing and insights it’s like food for the soul to hear conversations like this. An oasis in a desert of alienation hahaha. Blessings to you both for your unconditional love to the thirsty 🙏🧘🏻💕xx

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

❤️

[@VioletSynergy]

Linda, I am so glad it resonated with you. Blessings on your journey.

[@holisticanxietyadvice8549]

Love this interview. It’s very beautiful but her story also makes me sad. I’m really happy you could help her on her journey, she is just an absolutely wonderful human being. Much love from Germany!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It was all her! She did a lot of work but it’s also paradoxically a totally natural process :)

[@VioletSynergy]

Sending you love in Germany!

[@billromas]

YES!...WE ALL might as well burst out in laughter!❣

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

🤣🤣

[@VioletSynergy]

Always laughter🥸🤹🏼‍♀️🎭

[@BigAl9653]

Laughing at my ego from consciousness is love. It's freedom.

[@maryamsh28]

What a beautiful story Violet! Your journey is so poetic. Just like your beautiful face! And your beautiful heart! You are the living example of hope! Thanks for sharing your story. And the way you talk and point is so unique and special. So grateful for this interview. Thank you. Thanks, Angelo for these awesome interviews

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

❤️🌈

[@VioletSynergy]

Thanks Maryam, 💕

[@Leena1234-j3c]

This video, this interview, really touched my heart. Just watching her alone, I felt a heart opening transmission, from her to me. She is simply beautiful 💜❤️

[@Lion-O-]

I just love her just " Love". My trauma comes from a whole systemic of what I resonate " narcissistic abuse system", " This " I am" was the scapegoat. So the authentic part of my person, was used, abused, discarded over and over. All this, photographic memory. I have spent the last 14 months as what I express as " walking through the valley of shadow of death " the sense " actively " dying. I recognize, 25 year nurse. That " moral injury ". Oh my internal vibrations, that I reasoned away to "my anxiety ". I kept having repetitive dejavu of my purpose. " all revealed" snippet by snippet of my " higher self". Guiding me, through 55 years of abuse that was hidden " in plain site", I had the knowing, that my abuse was uncomfortable, words never matched their actions. I felt the pain, of my abusers, abusing me. I live with it. But, now I can literally feel the energy . Me too, my abuse, pushed my spirit through the darkest of dark. I could go on and on. Love your view, I am feeling, along with both of you!!! ZDOGG too, loved the videos. I was in it, living it. Because this is all me!!!! Thank you, I made it, 55.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

❤️🦋Thanks for your comments :)

[@yodawise2472]

Pure unconditional Love!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

☺️

[@Tayra7]

Your part about being a child and feeling the feelings of adults and there sadness and It feeling that there is a better way. This is something I can relate to. I feel like I have always been a bridge to try connect them to something else.

[@VioletSynergy]

Beautiful

[@BigAl9653]

I woke up from lots of little things, but what pushed me over was realizing that I have (had) a cluster B personality disorder (DSM-5) Borderline Personality Disorder. I then suddenly 'saw' that my personality (ego, false self) was other than I, and I was, and I am and we are. I'm sober, in AA. I got sober during covid and had nothing alse to do, so I went to almost 2000 AA meetings in a year (on zoom). And I began to love all of these people, all of humanity, the individuals that make up the everything. I saw 'personalities'. This was just before I woke up, I didn't know why I was doing this, other than I really liked it. Being able to see all these personalities, and then seeing that I have a personality and we all have personalities (egos) and they're the same thing. I observe/know/realize, personalities, including my own (when I want to😃). If I interact with a personality disorder person, I know everything that person will do and has done and no one can lie to me!🤯 For real! Has anyone else here found themselves totally rewriting all of the personality disorders in the diagnostic and statistical manual of the American Psychology Association? Because you KNOW everything about psychology? Oh yeah! The AA 12 steps are an enlightenment map. And they knew it when they wrote them. Carl Jung was clearly awake. Bill W. , and Doctor Bob were too, you can tell. I never KNEW this until 3 months ago, and I've been around "the program" for 30 years! Being is good.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I agree... check out Paul Hedderman if you haven't he has a lot to say about AA, recovery and non-duality. Also if you feel inclined check out the video I made with Eshwar, it's in the awakening stories playlist.

[@chriswilson5758]

Always good pointers in these videos. I never really thought about air or oxygen. Oxygen enters through the breath and permeates through the blood and carbon dioxide leaves the blood and body. Even if you hold your breathe, cells are shedding to the universe and food from the universe is metabolizing. When you drink water, when does it cease to be water and become you! No matter how solid, separate, permanent and independent you feel, there is never a moment you could ever be separated from this. Physical birth depended on the food that was eaten to create the seed of you, never separate. Even in physical death there's no separation, the body is lifeing something.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

So true. If you think you are separate from the environment just see how long you can hold your breath 🤔

[@chriswilson5758]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake 🐋 💩 it didn't work

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@chriswilson5758 😂

[@VioletSynergy]

Never separate 🥰

[@ncadouyt]

Thank you so much for sharing this. This really hit home somehow, thank you for this opportunity to get another glimpse of what I so deeply long for.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

❤️

[@jannbarber3625]

Thank you so much for posting this. Good to have reminders about intuition as I often forget.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome :)

[@VioletSynergy]

Yes Jann, look for it daily and you will start to see some magic.

[@musicmoments8510]

This is so strange. I came across this after commenting on your video yesterday and this lady's story is almost identical to mine. Foster care at 8, trauma, OCD, fascination with art (in my case music). I had to stop watching when she started talking about therapy and how they would never ask how you were doing. And how adults behaved strangely in her eyes. All things I contemplated at that age too. It became too eerily similar. Wow, how strange.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

💜

[@markpeacock6437]

Thank you! Looking forward to Part 2.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thanks for watching!

[@VioletSynergy]

Welcome Mark

[@A2Zdogmd]

Wow. No words. To say thank you doesn't begin to describe the gratefulness. ❤

[@notabody7538]

This video was so powerful. It has already contributed to action in my story. Truly feeling like you're not alone is priceless.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Great to hear.

[@ivaskoda5242]

This made me cry multiple times. Thank you for sharing!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Hi Iva

[@VioletSynergy]

Love you dear Iva!

[@ivaskoda5242]

@@VioletSynergy ohh so sweet, love you too😊

[@ivaskoda5242]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake hi Angelo😊

[@rubyslippers9140]

This has been helpful in holding the paradox of the complete and utter individuality expressed in this universe and no individual that it happens to. :)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes, exemplifies that

[@VioletSynergy]

Absolutely

[@Sashas-mom]

I’m so glad this channel/Angelo allows people to be themselves it’s the most amazing ability. And I think without it, this style wouldn’t really be helpful. ♥️

[@maryannscanlon8655]

I’m so glad I met you last week Violet. You are an inspiration

[@nat998]

Thank you Violet, only 40 mins in so far and really enjoying hearing your story. It really touched me when I read your story in Angelo's book so thank you for sharing ❤️🙏

[@nat998]

Thank you for the self inquiry tips✨ Intuition=trust your heart It doesn't feel like it's something you're going to get to know - but wait and trust. It doesn't show up In a wordy answer, but energetic synchronicities. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@nat998]

I also loved that film, "A Walk to remember", very emotional. Never read "The Power of Now" - I'm such a an amateur. Think I will try read it, that book keeps coming my way.

[@nat998]

It sounds as though this was a gradual natural awakening prodded by inquiry but the sense is that after a lifetime of inner child and shadow work the time was ripe to be set free. It's so interesting to hear also the way you speak about early suffering as being "meant to be" somehow. The sense that the storyline doesn't feel real post awakening - is this because life is only lived in the present fully engaged? This moment is all that exists. The storyline only exists as a memory thought so it's a literal recreation which feels real to the mind bound self.

[@nat998]

Lol and then the bit about don't take life seriously, I don't wanna offer you a peek of the candy bar analogy, and the laughter... OK I get it now 😂

[@nat998]

"Love the Unknown..." "Keep blindly trusting" 🙏❤️

[@mcknikker]

Love❤

[@kelliedawn9229]

This has been so powerful to watch tonight almost everything you share Violet i can mirror from my own life. I faught back tears so many times again not wanting to cry infront of the dogs. I was so blown away over Angelo's ability to actually see you just witnessing it made my heart cry. And your description about going the route of intuition just brought so much home. Thank you two beautiful beings ❤️🙏🤗

[@davidwest2808]

Thank you for sharing the inspiring and beautiful story of your life experience. I can feel the transition of the uncertainty and anxiety of your youth into the radiance you’ve become. Bravo, Violet !

[@DanielleM-yr4di]

“Hello Angelo Grr” 😂 So thankful that you shared this, Violet 💜 🤗

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

:)

[@DanielleM-yr4di]

Sooo sooo gud 🥲🥰

[@VioletSynergy]

Your most welcome 🙏

[@damianhardy2965]

Watching this with joyful tears and a lump in my throat. This is the only thing that is really important right now. Also validated for my weird growing sense that everything is perfect. When I have felt that I would immediatwly think "no, that thing's not perfect, it's a shit show!", but maybe it just is.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

☺️

[@Teddytheson]

Excited for our chat Violet!

[@kristibrown6091]

She’s beautiful, inside and out. ☺️

[@macparker3549]

Speechless. No words can touch how deeply this conversation is impacting me. Hans shaking so much from the energy this stirs up I can barely type. 🙏💎🦋

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@AlastairGames]

thank you!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome!

[@danieladiaz246]

Beautiful. intuition as a gateway....thank you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

🌈

[@VioletSynergy]

Welcome to you Dani 😍

[@BarbaraMerryGeng]

This is was so good Nice to hear there are others like me 🙂😍🐇

[@propps2253]

I love these converations with other people thank you, they are very helpful for me. During this process for me it's difficult to trust the unknown and intuition and what you said the uncertainty of what i will be or what i would do in the future, the people you talk to and you show me slowly that it's okay to fall and to trust the process and intuition.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful!

[@VioletSynergy]

Yes just trust more and more and you will be perfectly ok.

[@suevenning4795]

Thank you both

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome :)

[@georgedavie3651]

These awakening stories are soooo helpful, like longer and more detailed video versions of the stories in Three pillars Of Zen, great.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

More to come!

[@AlexanderSamarth]

Photographic memory! So cool. I have Adyashantic memory and aphantasia 🤣

[@kimtaylor4480]

Unknown yet so intimate that the feeling or intuition of complete safety. ❤️

[@kimtaylor4480]

And that beep in this recording was wild!

[@johnfiorello1931]

I love the piano behind you 🖤🖤

[@robertharrelson5024]

My intuition feels the authenticity. No spiritual ego detected.

[@annsunderland4673]

Love this ! 💗identify with so many of your experiences especially your feeling like “weird and alien “ 💗

[@swhite8381]

My awakening process appears so different from what I hear and see on KZbin and podcasts . I don’t know if it’s even the same but I also know that there is no such thing as “ same “ so that’s ok. I imagine what I would say if I was being questioned on my childhood and stuff and it just seems that my childhood doesn’t matter at all. There’s nothing I can say that would benefit anyone . Nothing . I think there are possibly more people that “ wake up” and don’t say a word about it to anyone , ever ( even though it appears that everyone wakes up and starts a KZbin channel 😆) Edit: I don’t consider myself finished with this beautiful awakening process . I am just in the current

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I can relate. It’s quite common to have an awakening and even liberation and not yea h or talk about it publicly. It just seems like everyone who wakes up starts a you tube channel bc well how would you bump into those who have had an awakening and know it if they don’t talk about it? Personally I didn’t talk about it at all with anyone for about 15 years, bc there’s nothing to say about it. There still isn’t.

[@swhite8381]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I wish I could wake up and start a KZbin channel 😆 It would be so fun to be able to talk about this and maybe make a little money doing so . But for now I am just grooming dogs and I do love my job ♥️

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@swhite8381 I wish I could groom dogs for a living, I freaking love dogs and could make some 💰 doing it! This channel doesn’t pay anything because the proceeds go to charity. What kind of dogs are your favorites? Do you see any Basenjis?

[@swhite8381]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I saw that you give the money to charity , I think that’s really awesome. As a matter of fact I bought your book after I saw a video of you raising money for Hannah and Shane’s cause . I used to watch them all the time , they are so funny. If I had my own KZbin channel I would definitely donate some of the money but not ALL of it 😆 I’ve never seen a Basenji in my shop personally although I welcome it . I don’t know if I have a favorite breed really. I love dogs so much . Dog grooming just completely fell into my life . It’s actually a weird story . I was working as a dog bather and was learning how to groom and the owners got a divorce and I was out of a job and wanted to learn to groom so I offered to groom the dogs in my neighborhood for practice and didn’t charge anything . I did that for about a month and had so many people wanting to come back and pay so I went through all the legal processes to run a home grooming business and BAM ! I was a self employed business owner just like that. That was 10 years ago . I had absolutely nothing to do with it. How beautiful

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@swhite8381 very cool, yeah I’ve had English bulldog and labs and goldens in the past but it wasn’t until I was introduced to basenjis that’s I saw the light 😂😂. JK but they are remarkable and unique. They are quiet and essentially don’t bark but occasionally “talk” with a kind of yodel. They’re sweet but a little dominant around other dogs. But I like pretty much all breeds. Dogs are the best

[@rayedenpoet6774]

A very interesting interview. I'm still trying to take it all in, but that's a good thing.

[@StephenAndersonSACreate]

So beautiful. Thank you both 🙂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Our pleasure!

[@BigKmaniac]

You guys are killing me ... I want what you guys have

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You already have it. Just have to find a way to let go of wanting it :)

[@BigKmaniac]

Thank you

[@kirre3551]

Thank you guys, great video

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Our pleasure!

[@VioletSynergy]

Most welcome

[@yasminel-hakim4348]

beautiful 🙏❤️

[@Jade33]

🙏. Being comfortable with unknown reminds me of “life is like a box of chocolate.” Also a mystery box of jelly beans in Harry Potter’s book, you don’t know if you are getting an earwax flavour or rotten tomatoes. But it’s all fun jokes. 😂

[@simonjaanivald3268]

This interview is amazing, is the book you talking about "The highly sensitive person" by Elaine N Aron? I have been working with this for years to put up energetic boundaries but still not completely there yet ..

[@ELMcenter]

Hi Angelo! I’ve been watching your channel for a few months now. I love the interviews I’ve done, and I love these awakening stories. How would one go about telling their story on your channel? I couldn’t find an email to contact you 💜

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I set those up by invite on occasion. my website SimplyAlwaysAwake.com has a place to correspond :)

[@thegringoscottproductions1699]

Which one if those two brought the quite laugh closed eyed face to the relationship? I woukd guess Angelo. Ive picked it up recently myself lol

[@richmac6345]

This is weird... coincidence? I finished reading page 429 this morning and wondered if you had done an interview with "Violet" and here it is... haha I don't often watch your awakening videos... So, thanks. Great interview and can see some similarities in my own life.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😊

[@alessandrocardelli5291]

Ehi! In your book you make references to a following volume... is it already work in progress? Thanks

[@Tilr701]

Hi is there any way you could help someone who has some health issues? I loved listening to this.

[@neildmedia]

Its a full 50mins before we get to the awakening process. Personal biog important for context but there were no signposts how long this would be. People obviously touched by her life story but perhaps split the video into Pt1 The life journey and Pt2 The Awakening process. If you listen to Pt2 then you may be intrigued to delve into her life more deeply. Just a humble suggestion for the consumption of extended content 🙏

[@karlijn9669]

❤❤❤🙏🏼

[@truilt]

lol @ the blip edit

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Who said it was an edit... ;)

[@VioletSynergy]

My favorite part. So fun

[@ishvaralmahdi]

Do you think it's possible to reach and stay in the higher state of non-duality and still having relationships with the opposite gender ? I'm not talking about Nirvikalpa samadhi ; it seems to be possible for this state, but beyond : the nissankalpa samadhi (without intention), the nirvrittika samadhi (returned back), or even the nirvasana samadhi (without residual conditioning). We know Master Jean Klein, or closer, Master R. Spira and Adya, having a wife. Even legendary bodhisattvas. Muhammad and his 9 wives and 2 slaves. But are those masters really in the higher state and still doing those activities, or are those masters still subtly trapped in the manifestation ? Of course if we ask them why continuing having those contacts, they would say that they are not identified with their body, deeds and thoughts of desires. Just enjoying without being attached. Yes. Like the story of this thief stealing and saying 'It's not me but my hand'. What are your opinion about what seems to be a hidden slavery ? Thanks for your reply.

[@doseboy499]

I begin to wonder after all this time, are there even any dislikes on any of your videos?

[@konsstar]

We don't know what is going to happen?

[@cps_Zen_Run]

Oh, the imaginary Self is seeking the solution to an imaginary problem. JUST THIS is perfect as is. Stop seeking. Allow and Accept.

[@birgit8996]

A beautiful story💛....but,....doesn't that sustain the whole system of being able to reach, to be able to find.....what is.....it's just this story that appears. ...that's all....who does that help...the thoughts? There is only what is....everything else is imagination, thoughts. Intuition, trust, memories, trauma...all thoughts💭 Anything can appear when watching a movie...thoughts, emotions, body sensations...but who is this useful for? I don't know🙃.... at the moment I don't know anything

[@nat998]

Hi, I think I understand what you mean... Violet also refers to the awakening as a kind of a story that feels like it happened to a character she read in a book... Here's something I'm curious about... So she did say that when she felt the memory of the awakening it was almost as though she was re-living the experience all over again. So then my confusion is that if thoughts are memory visuals, then a memory is a thought? Do thoughts then reinforce the illusion of the separate character? Sorry if this question sucks 😂 I'm just so confused right now because I feel like honestly I am a character in a story. My life doesn't quite feel real- I feel like I'm going through the motions but that I don't know... I'm just curious if you can relate to that? Feel free to ignore 😂 I'm thinking out loud here 💭💭💭

[@nat998]

Is it normal to feel like you have no control over life? I feel like I'm going on autopilot and I don't know why I do or say the things I do. It is actually just happening and I feel like I'm in the passenger seat. Feel so confused. I don't really get this process. My mind is grappling to make sense.

[@birgit8996]

@Nat Memory as a thought....confusion as a thought💭...just that... can you show me the confusion? What does she look like.....or is it just a thought of confusion?

[@nat998]

@@birgit8996 you're so laser sharp... The confusion... is a thought of confusion? And the reason I feel confused is because I'm attached to this thought of "I'm confused" but I need to investigate who is the "I" this thought refers to?

[@nat998]

@@birgit8996 I can't show you the confusion because yes, it's a thought. So what is happening is I'm getting sucked into thought attachments and I'm believing the story they tell me. It's so hard to detach from it. In this moment right now I can see that right here in my immediate reality there's only what is appearing before me, nothing more than that. I just need to keep practicing becoming more aware of thoughts because I'm so easily spellbound by the story.

[@tomjones6296]

Even gorgeous people can have trauma in their life….it seems….

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Trauma makes no distinctions. People of all walks of life, ages, genders, socioeconomic statuses, can experience trauma.

[@VioletSynergy]

Beauty doesn’t exempt anyone from anything. Nothing does

[@Cp_9900]

Great name!