To Life

About the Book

To Life brings to paper the author’s thirty-year journey of inner and outer exploration. It aims to support the readers toward the way back home and to ultimately contribute to humanity and our planet. The author recognises that it is only by means of each individual coming home that personal lives can be enriched and bettered and that hope can be brought to today’s troubled world and humanity. To Life asks the essential questions about life, humanity, and individual existence—questions that must be asked if we are to live consciously, meaningfully, joyfully, and fully and be whole and at peace with ourselves, with each other, and with all life on this planet. To Life is not only inspirational but also practical. The nature of an inner journey with its potential joys and trials unveils as the author takes the readers by the hand, supports, encourages, and guides them toward taking the steps required to make their own discoveries and to realise who they are at essence as human beings and as the individuals they are. Indeed, they are shown the path back home. These steps include the unveiling of the human condition with its gifts and pitfalls, the discovery of one’s centre and learning how to stay with it, the unveiling of the mystery of life’s experiences, of one’s feelings and thoughts and learning how to be with them, and the realisation of the true power, freedom, and love within.

About the Author

Rachel Angel Sussman was born in 1950 in a refugee absorption centre in the newly established state of Israel. Her childhood was a mixture of joy, hope, vision, and hardships—all of which laid the foundation to an inner and outer inquiry of life, humanity, and her own identity. The author migrated to Australia in 1971, following her marriage to an Australian citizen. Whilst the questions and seeking were always there, it was only in her thirties that the author’s conscious inner journey commenced. This journey included the completion of tertiary education, a working life both as a counsellor in private practice and as a social welfare worker in the public arena of community services, and an ongoing personal inner journey. Writing has always been the author’s way of expression, but it was in her late ’50s that she was internally guided and inspired to put pen to paper and share her journey and To Life was born.