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92 · Jul 2019
Chirps.
Steve Sufian Jul 2019
Chirps, Tweets, Whooshes and Hurrahs!
Making words to capture sounds:
Onomatopoeia.
Making words to capture feelings:
I hear ya! I Love ya! I See ya!

Sounds of birds,
Sounds of wind,
Spontaneous sounds of Joy—
We make up words to capture them,
To sing the Rapture that’s within,
With Rapture, play, employ.

Chirp! Chirrup! Tweet, tweet, tweet;
Woosh! Sigh! Whistle! Roar!
Give cheery Highs!
To the birds that fly,
The wind that bends and rises,
To the One and Only Consciousness
That Enlightens and Surprises.

Sounds of feet—tap, tap, tap.
Sounds of laughs—Ha, Ha. Ha.
Sounds of water—gurgle, murmur, roar.
We sing to the birds, the wind, the streams,
To the ocean and its shores.

We sing to footsteps, laughter, stones,
To trees, to leaves, to butter, batter, fences, thrones.
Sharing our rhythm: Clap, clap, clap;
Sharing our tune: Ah, Ah, Ah;
Sharing our Love, our songs, our poems.

Nature is kind:
She responds with a tweet,
With a murmur, a flutter, a swoop and a dart,
With Wit and with Love, and with Art.

With Play and with Glow,
With fast and with slow,
With waving, with bending, with sways, and with Silence, with Magic, with Loving, with Flow.

We know She’s our Mother.
There is no other,
She responds with Love, Play and Flow.

She responds with Love, Play and Flow.

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Steve Sufian Mar 2019
Chameleons can change color,

Grip with their feet or their tails,

They can stick their tongues out faster than a fighter jet,

And are good at hiding:

“Chameleon” comes from Greek “khamaileon”, lion on the ground–

lions are very good at hiding.



Their eyes rotate independently so they can see 360 degrees without moving their head.



But we humans can also act according to need:

We can change our mind faster than the chameleon can stick out its tongue;

We can not only hide but also reveal;

We can hold Love fast without effort,

And Joy equally so.



We can gracefully fit the novel and the moment’s need into our healthy routine.



So, dear Chameleon, we invite you:

Evolve! Become human; Grow to Enlightenment quickly, with all Revealed.

All.
90 · Jan 2019
Clearing the Path.
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
Rags and soap,

Shovels and hope,

Snowploughs, bulldozers, rock salt

Clear the asphalt.



Love, gratitude, forgiveness

Clear our heart.
90 · Feb 2019
Purity
Steve Sufian Feb 2019
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We get tested:

Can we let this go and not mind?

Can we be challenged and not anger?

Can we share and not feel proud?



Fill with Love and Joy,

No room for anger, greed, hate, fear, arrogance?



We are passing many tests:

Thank you to our helpers and our Helper!

Thank You!
89 · Dec 2018
Annointed.
Steve Sufian Dec 2018
Not just kings or the Messiah,

We each annoint our self

To set an example,

To lead wherever we are.

We create a good influence

Based on our experience

Of the Kingdom of Heaven Within Us,

Of the Stillness within which we know God

And the lovely peace that gathers around Christmas

Gathers every day,

Every moment.

We annoint our world

And everywhere and every when

Is Silent, Lively, Holy.

Seasons Greetings!

Happy New Year!

This moment and every moment.

This and every,

Now and Always–

Happy New Year.
89 · Nov 2018
How Shall I Know Thee?
Steve Sufian Nov 2018
What are the signs, inner and outer?

Light,

Joy,

Universal Love.



Yes.



No separation between Thee and me.

Absolutely yes!

Absolutely.
87 · Jun 2019
Supreme.
Steve Sufian Jun 2019
We have a taste of All-in-All,
Omnipresent Joy;
The taste confirms the Goal is near,
We Are the Master, not the toy.

Total, Whole, Pure Love, Pure Joy, All-Pervading, nothing missing,
Fulfilled, Unlimited, Unbounded, All-Knowing, All-Power, All-Blessing,
Perfect, Real, no veil or sludge, definitely no curtain,
Exact, For sure,Complete, Profound, Ultimate, for certain.


The Ocean subtly Flows Within,
Glowing, Brightly Glowing,
We stir the Ocean easily
With thoughts designed for Showing.

With thoughts designed for Showing.
Steve Sufian Apr 2019
Trying to build a tower out of bricks,

Fragments of Life,

Led to the fragmenting of Language,

Civilization shattered,

A world lacking ease.



Looking at beauty anywhere,

We begin to sense Life again,

Wholeness again,

Civilization and Language again–

We cease to challenge God,

Open ourselves to God,

Our Self,



We return to ease and Ease,

Enjoy beauty everywhere,

Enjoy each other’s company,

And live in a world where everyone is friend–

We live in God’s Tower

At Peace.



In Lively Peace.
87 · Jun 2019
Gliding.
Steve Sufian Jun 2019
Fingers glide above the pulse,
Above the flesh, the bones.
From our finger tips flow Bliss,
Tuning us to Cosmic Tones.

Within the Bliss, Joy, Love Flow,
Swirling, sweeping with Golden Glow,
Spheres and lines show sturdy shapes,
Cubes and vines of charming grapes.

Details appear that deep tradition
Connects with organs, all our condition.
Layers of pulse, points on fingers,
Balance us and quickly bring us:

Home.

Home to Health,
Home to Wholenes,
Home to Wealth,
To Joy that’s Glorious.

Gently bring us Home.
Gently Bring us Home.
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
Shimmering,

Glimmering,

Dancing and Striding,

Moseying, Meandering,

Laughing and Smiling:



Us! One! Us!
86 · Jun 2019
Gliding.
Steve Sufian Jun 2019
Fingers glide above the pulse,
Above the flesh, the bones.
From our finger tips flow Bliss,
Tuning us to Cosmic Tones.

Within the Bliss, Joy, Love Flow,
Swirling, sweeping with Golden Glow,
Spheres and lines show sturdy shapes,
Cubes and vines of charming grapes.

Details appear that deep tradition
Connects with organs, all our condition.
Layers of pulse, points on fingers,
Balance us and quickly bring us:

Home.

Home to Health,
Home to Wholenes,
Home to Wealth,
To Joy that’s Glorious.

Gently bring us Home.
Gently Bring us Home.
85 · Nov 2018
Cottage on Wall Street.
Steve Sufian Nov 2018
A Bed and Breakfast half-a-block from the Stock Exchange;

Prices and service like those of rural Upstate New York.

Quaint!



But is it real?

Realer than we might think: $107 a night is a price for B&B service in a hotel close to the Market. Upstate rural NY doesn’t do much better.



Could it be more real?

Perhaps not as a cottage but as a room in someone’s apartment close to the Stock Exchange.

The spirit of sharing that is the Internet at its best

Also shows up in time shares, apartment exchanges, and day-to-day room rental in someone’s home, treated like a member of the family–except for the payment.



As life grows more and more civilized,

We see more signs of people behaving with love, kindness, courtesy;

We see more signs of life all around us having the cozy quality of a rural cottage,

More and more plants growing in the midst of asphalt.



We see love and kindness becoming more Universal,

The fundamental way everyone treats everyone.



We certainly have a way to go

But we are doing are best as individuals here and there

To make our world, our Planet Earth,

Into a Home for everyone,

A neighborly neighborhood,

A family,

A community.



Little by little!

Little by little~
84 · Mar 2019
Snack Food.
Steve Sufian Mar 2019
A cupcake, a donut, a couple of grapes:

Eye and tummy pleased.



A good joke,

A flash of Pure Awareness,

The Voice of a Saint:

Mind, heart and soul are pleased.



The snack creates comfort but also the desire for a Full Meal,

For Permanent Pure Awareness Moving within Itself,

The Self,

Our Self.



Within This we move,

To this we move!

To this we move!



Within and to,

Gratefully and gracefully

We move.



Gratefully and gracefully we move.
84 · Jan 2019
Growing Up
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
Grown up is a big deal: Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent.

And within these: Omni-Joyful, Omni-Loving.



This is Grown Up: One Without a Second.



But

We are growing up:

Nurturing our knowledge, our skills, our range, our joy, our loving kindness.



And our Real Self Blesses us with Approval,

Bringing us Delight in the Pathless Path.
83 · Nov 2018
Healing Springs
Steve Sufian Nov 2018
Those in the ground,

Warm, mineral, soothing, healing---ahhh!



Those in the soul and the Soul!



Ahhh! and Ahhh! and Ahhh!
82 · Jun 2019
Grace.
Steve Sufian Jun 2019
Filled with Joy,
We feel Blessed,
Our actions smoothly
Share the Best.

Love and Joy,
They are the Same,
Unifying
Form and name.

Grace infuses every sense,
Car horn sound, picket fence.

Our awareness, with eyes closed,
Is Sheets of Light that Flows and Flows.

White and Golden, Joy Divine,
A Blessing to all Life, so Kind.

Eyes are open, Grace Pervades,
All and all, all light, all shades.

Meadows, cities, streams and glades,
All is Light, Grace Pervades.

All is Light, Grace Pervades.
Steve Sufian May 2019
Definitely not ordinary,
Definitely not boring,
Increasing alertness,
Banishing snoring.

Incredible! Fabulous! Stunning! Wondrous!

Gives Life a wake-up call:
Welcome All! Welcome All!

Shows us Joy is serious:
Life can be delirious.
Everyone in the Dance of Life
All are in the Chorus.

All are in the Chorus
81 · May 2019
Exalted.
Steve Sufian May 2019
Beyond the highest rung: Exalted!
By Itself Alone Supported: Exalted!
No word can name It,
No power praise It: Exalted!

Our True Nature,
We must remember;
“Who am I?”,
Decipher;

The All-Pervading,
Perceive;
The Traditions of One,
Believe;

Hope for this moment,
Conceive.

Through gratitude, forgiveness, love
Arrive Home: Exalted!

Through Love Arrive Home: Exalted!
81 · Mar 2019
Within the Source.
Steve Sufian Mar 2019
To the leaf, the source is the root far away

But it can waken,

Be awakened,

And realize, as Maharishi puts it,

That it is Sap, playing the role of leaf,

And then the Whole Tree is Within the leaf,

Which has become Leaf.



Same is true of us:

Body, senses, thoughts, I-Sence

Are not just the familiar individual

Whose name is on our driver’s license,

ID card,

But the Wholeness within which all individuality

Exists as Expressions.



We have begun to Waken to this Reality

And our Life has begun to be not only Magnificent

But Cozy and Comfortable.



We are all Waking!

All!
Steve Sufian Mar 2019
When Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician, was classifying organisms

He recalled a story about Alexander the Great seeing wise men sitting under banana trees and eating their fruit.



So he named the banana tree (plant, perhaps) “musa sapientum”, muse of the wise.



Fortunately, we don’t need to be wise to eat bananas or sit under banana trees.



Perhaps we will grow wise by eating them: I certainly hope so!

I very much hope so!
80 · Jan 2019
Love in Detail
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
Not just a smile that captures the eye,

But food on the table–love in detail.



Not just the Ocean of Shimmering Bliss

But fondly embracing this Drop and This.



Master of Wisdom, of Order, of Play,

Creating each thought, each Hip! Hip! Hooray!,



Fulfilling whatever we create in our Mind,

When we Hide and we seek, we Find! Yes, We Find!



All-Pervading, Omniscient, Omnipotent,

Omni-Loving, Omni-Joyful–



Not just a smile that captures the eye

But food on the table, Love in Detail.

Food on the table Love in Detail.
80 · Jun 2019
Golden Goddess.
Steve Sufian Jun 2019
She delights in healing all our ills,
Sharing with us many skills,
Saving us from doctors' pills,
Smoothing out the slopes of hills,
Giving cash to pay our bills,
Allowing us to have the thrills
Of Knowing Her,
Of Knowing Her.

She takes us past the highest height,
Integrates the day and night,
Spreads always Eternal Light,
Shares Her Grace, All-Knowing Sight,
Gives us all the Great Delight
Of  Knowing Her,
Of  Knowing Her.

(Chorus)
She is me,
She is you,
We three are One.
Merrily, We Roll Along:
We are the Light,
We are the Sun. (2X)


She takes our sorrow and makes it play,
She takes November and makes it May,
She gives All freely, no need to pay,
No need to travel, we can stay
And Know Her.
And Know Her.
80 · Dec 2018
We Are Always Near.
Steve Sufian Dec 2018
A million miles?

Nothing to our Golden Hearts.
79 · Apr 2019
Feast
Steve Sufian Apr 2019
Food on the table,
Love in our Heart,
Joy in our company,
Here’s a good start.

Chatter of weather,
Chatter of work,
Chatter of hobbies,
Laughter the perk.

Each one meandered
From office to lunch
Not knowing who we’ll join,
Or a few or a bunch.

But the food here is good,
Grown, cooked with love,
So Joy fills our soul,
In, around and above.

Joy fills our soul,
In, around and above.
79 · Feb 2019
Satisfying.
Steve Sufian Feb 2019
With Omnipresent, All-Pervading Love and Joy,

We are happy

But only with Total Restoration of Awareness

Are we Satisfied.
Steve Sufian Mar 2019
Ocean of Self Sails, the Whole Ocean.




Magically,

Wondrously,

The Unbounded Ocean Moves All at Once, Within Itself.



It also moves as Streams and Dreams,

Facts and Fictions,,

Games of Love and Joy:

Hiding, Seeking, Revealing.

Concealing and again Revealing.



Always every move, however tiny,

Is the Whole Ocean Sailing within Itself.

The Whole Ocean of our Self Sailing.
Steve Sufian Feb 2019
Physically, we’re individuals;

Emotionally, we’re family.

Spiritually, we’re One.

One, Always One.
Steve Sufian Dec 2018
Greenhouse warms plants,

Green home warms us,

Love’s Green Home spreads Universal Love

To all plants, houses, homes.



Truly!
Steve Sufian Feb 2019
“I think you’re in the wrong joke,” the manager said.

“Oh!:” the chicken said, “I though I was supposed to turn left at Wheatgrass Street.”

“Isn’t this the Corn and Barley Bar?”



“Uh, uh”, the manager no-nodded his head.

“But we do sell and tell corny jokes if you’d like one.”

“Yes” the chicken said, “When I’m not near the corn I love, I love the corn that’s near”.



“OK,” “Why did the chicken cross the road?”

“I didn’t intend to,” the chicken said, “I was looking over my shoulder at my favorite hen and suddenly! I was across the road”



“Uh, huh”, the manager said, “Thank you for giving me the real story”.



Tune in to CNN tonight at eight and you’ll see the chicken, the road and the hen re-enacting this gripping drama.
78 · Jan 2019
Suddenly!
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
Walking, smiling along a nice tree-lined street,

Seeing a movie with part of my mind of how my day will unfold,

Thinking about the movie with another part of my mind: Suddenly!

I am completely Joyous Transparency– edgeless, boundless, no connection with body, movie, thoughts, completely outside the body.

“Can I really be unbounded, edgeless, eternal?” I think.

My Transparency swells in golden light,

Creates a golden tube, makes a corner, turns around behind my head and looks through my eyes at My Self. How Glorious!

Within a little while–not long, maybe a few months, definitely not more than a few years–

My Transparency and My Golden Fullness are always together, at least while I’m awake,

And I experience My Self as Omnipresent, All-Pervading, Love and Joy:

How Glorious! How Marvelous! How Delightfully Simple to Know who I Am!

How normal!

Thank you to my teacher, to all who help me live a good life and to live a better and better one!

Thank You!

Thank You!
77 · Jan 2019
One is a Quorum For Fun.
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
Nothing to discuss,

No controversies to consider–

Just look around and within,

Listen around and within,

Taste,

Touch,

Smell,

Sixth sense and Nth Sense:



Hallelujah! Here is Fun.



Within the little one and within the One!

Hallelujah! Here is Fun.
77 · Apr 2019
Single Actor, Every Role
Steve Sufian Apr 2019
An amoeba changes forms;
An actor changes roles;
An author is aware of many roles at once;
The Cosmic Actor is Every Role simultaneously,
Remaining always One.

We are remembering who we are--
Always All, One!
Always All! One!
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
Golden streams of our Awareness

Express the Playfulness Inherent–

Words are a Gift to share in the play

And return, expand to Wholeness.
76 · Feb 2019
Sitting Before
Steve Sufian Feb 2019
We raise ourselves to Wholeness by sitting before Wholeness, God–

Humbly sitting before God.



Our leaders, when they are good leaders, preside over us by sitting humbly before Wholeness, before God.

We sit before God and humbly pray that we and our leaders will always be humble and good.

Always!
75 · Dec 2018
Untitled
Steve Sufian Dec 2018
God’s Village.



Ocean of God,

Bubble of God, Drop of God.



Universe of God,

Village of God,

Home of God:



In our heart and our Heart,

God is At Home,

God is Home.
75 · Jan 2019
Leaving Shadows Behind.
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
Empty space is really Consciousness,
Dark sky is really Light hiding.

All is Beauty,
Bringing Joy to our hearts,
Our thoughts,
Our individuality;

Bringing Joy, Appreciation, Gratitude, Love.

Awakening!
Bringing Joy that is Love,
Joy that is Love.
75 · Feb 2019
Protected
Steve Sufian Feb 2019
Roof over our head,

Job we’ve had for a long time,

Friends and family we’ve loved for a long time–

We are protected.



“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want…”,

We are especially protected.



Moving from the surface of our mind,

To the level of sound,

The level of flow,

The level of Formlessness,

We are at Home

And directly experience the Source of all protection.



We not only are protected but share in Protecting:

Nice!
75 · Feb 2019
Playful !
Steve Sufian Feb 2019
****!

Be gone,! the woes of time;

Our awareness opens to the Rose Divine,

Rows of roses in line, outline,

Outline a path,

A clue,

A sign

That we can take in this clime, that clime,

To make each moment Valentine.

With Pure Love entwine, entwine,

Embrace the One, Divine, Divine,

I Am You, what’s mine is Thine,

Happy, Happy Valentine!

Happy, Happy Valentine.
75 · Jan 2019
The Right Moment.
74 · Mar 2019
Full of Life
Steve Sufian Mar 2019
LIfe is always Full:
As we relax and trust
More and more
We open the door
And enjoy the Fullness.
73 · Mar 2019
Good Judgment.
Steve Sufian Mar 2019
Appreciate:

The flower, the janitor, the dust mop, the stain on the grass–

Everything! Everyone!

Appreciate!



And through appreciation,

Enjoy!

Through enjoyment, love.



Through love of our neighbor–whether tree or person–

We more deeply love ourself,

Know our Self.



Through knowing our Self,

Loving our Self,

We grow to “Love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, thy soul, thy strength”

And to realize “…the Lord, thy God, is One”

And we are One with the One.



Good judgment!

Judgment Fulfilled.

Fulfilled.
Steve Sufian Apr 2019
Michael in Hebrew means, “Who is like God?”



As the commander-in-chief of the heavenly army,

Michael asks any challenger,

“Who is like God?”

And when he asks,

God is in his speech:

What challenger can stand before God?

None.



In our life we seek to harmonize with God, God’s Will;

We seek to become virtuous, comfortable, happy

Servants in the earthly peace battalion of the heavenly army.



Love and kindness are the greatest helps:

The more rested and natural we are

The more we appreciate, are grateful, love.

The more we love the more joyful we are and

The closer we get to the Total Love and Joy that is God.

Soon we are there.

Soon!
71 · Jan 2019
Parting the Sea.
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
God gives us the power to part the sea that dwells between us and Freedom.

It is God that Parts the Sea

But we must raise our hands, as Moses did,

As Moses did.
Steve Sufian Dec 2018
It’s Christmas Season, sweetness, joy and friendliness begin to shine and flow.

So lovely! We begin to remember, to know

That we are made of Love and Joy,

We are sweet children of God, not just toys.



And so we get on the channel and place an ad saying:



“Hello, God, We’re glad You’re Great! Supreme! One and Only!

Thank You, God!

Thank You.
69 · Jan 2019
Playful.
Steve Sufian Jan 2019
We are getting good at being responsible yet playful,

Not taking ourselves too seriously,

Enjoying jokes and being teased.



At a deeper level, we are getting good at experiencing our Total Self,

Self of All Beings,

Not just the individual self that chats and plays, works and prays, with a single name.



And this Self is definitely Playful: Smiling, Twinkling, Humming.

Expressing Itself–Our Self–in Dancing Streams of Golden Joy,

High-Pitched Whistles of Cavorting Delight,

Roaring Swooshes of Oceanic Tides.



Definitely supporting our everyday self,

Definitely giving us Experience so we know What’s What

And take our daily life responsibly but lightly: seriously but lightly.
69 · Mar 2019
Pure, Innocent.
Steve Sufian Mar 2019
Happy in the moment,

Beyond all time and space,

Restoring our Connection

To Wholeness, to God’s Grace;



Remembering Reality:

Joy is what we Are;



Radiating the Joy and Love

Within and near and far.



Radiating the Joy and Love

Within and near and far.
67 · Feb 2019
Trusting
Steve Sufian Feb 2019
Built-in: in the womb, before the womb,

We trust that our soul will make progress,

We will have happy lives and Full Awareness will be restored.



Parents, teachers, friends, family

Teach us how to take care of ourself: mind, body, heart and soul.

They teach us skills to keep us safe,

To tell the difference between safe and risky, true and false.



They teach us how to be trustworthy,

How to build a better world,

The great world in which everyone is trustworthy.



Let’s continue building!

Let’s continue.
65 · Dec 2018
Flowers in the Meadow.
Steve Sufian Dec 2018
Sweet green grass,

Gentle wind,

Red, blue, orange flowers in the meadow.



We stroll smiling through the grass,

Gently loved by the blades,

We enter the grove of elms and oaks:

Silence! Lovely Silence!



Silence to our ears

Brings Silence to our mind, our heart:

Our body is filled with Golden, Overflowing Silence,

Inside Silence merging with Outer Silence,

Revealing Our Omnipresent, All-Pervading, Lively Silence,

Silence of Universal Joy, of Universal Love:



Ahhh!
64 · Dec 2018
Mountain Range.
Steve Sufian Dec 2018
We honor the blessings we’ve received when we connect to all mountains, do not attempt to stand alone.



We act with virtue to enjoy the full range, from smaller than the smallest to greater than the greatest.



We connect ourself, innocently, to the Self within our individuality and to the Self, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omni-Joyful, Omni-Loving.

We are happy to be one among many

And to open ourself to One, to All-in-All.

We are very happy!
63 · Nov 2018
Mystery.
Steve Sufian Nov 2018
How can the Unlimited, All There Is,

Pretend to be limited?

How can it hide from Itself?



How can I, who You Are also,

Hide from myself?



Thank You-Me for the dissolving the veil that has already occurred.



Please restore Full Awareness to every individual value of Thee-Me,

Please do this NOW!

Thank You! Me!

Thanks!
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