Snippets By Jonathan Berman

3/20/2013

Use your head to find the doors, use your heart to choose them.
Beyond this life strange wonders lie, in dreams we learn to fuse them.

Anchored by our dissonance, protected by our innocence. 
We walk along the endless miles, each step's eternity to reconcile.

Unmasked for love, compassion's lamp
Gives way to truth, gives us a chance.

Our fury burns while oceans churn the heat from all our terror
Each simple decision with poignant precision, demands forgiveness for the error.

Swirling mists in a centrifuge
Lovers lost after a deluge

Simply put there are only two choices
To listen within or ignore the voices.

3/16/2013

Everyone wants to be healthy and happy and wise, but few want to walk a path all night... You know the one, it leads past disillusion, self reclusion and soft illusion, it goes beyond all possessions, and defenses, takes responsibility for all life's changes and embraces the uncomfortable silence that roars within, leading you down into your core, never bored where fantasies are killed with understanding, comfort lies discarded cries, crimes and failures reconciled, a blessing in the moment just you and the universe. The union, the vocal verse, traverse the song that lives forever, dances long and to decipher, love, a witness, embraced by deathless life ambition, dream awake all is forgiven.

3/15/2013

Sanity is the marriage between belief and doubt.

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Sometimes we're the playwright, sometimes we're the muse
Sometimes we play roles we didn't even choose
Sometimes we're the actor, sometimes we're unseen
But we're always on camera in the midst of the dream
Sometimes we're so open, so ready to give
Sometimes we're so closed, just waiting to live

We go down that road, the path that alights
It whispers our name, but not the one we've been given
And we listen like lovers, to the world that spills over
Until we wake up from dying, and begin really living

Down we can wander, up we can soar
Every glance a window, every movement a door
Beyond these words, beyond thought and feeling
Playing the cards you yourself are dealing.

3/14/2013

J. R. R. Tolkien once said, "Not all who wander are lost."

Well, I've been both. On the other side of life, I took with me a map from the darkness,

covered in landmarks and points of interest, so that my time spent out there was never in vain, but just part of my adventure.

And though I can look back and see where the windows were darkened from looking the other way,

or where the inspiration stirred with love, the leaves in the boughs offering shade,

the sun was always there with me, until I was ready to see.

The burning soul of the stars, was just another side of me.

3/13/2013

The universe is a living, breathing, rejoicing, cosmic and kindred spirit, sharing, repairing, and inciting, every molecule, every morsel of time, a delectable treat, a joy, of love and harmony, wrapping us up warm and cared for, in eternal grace and compassion...
and stuff.

3/12/2013

If all you ever do is complain, even in clear skies, you'll never see sunshine and always see rain.

Life is not about problems, it's about solutions
Listen to your heart you're the world's ablution
Born to act not observe from above
Dream yourself, be a participant in love

3/9/2013

Do something wonderful. Do something unexpected. But do it when the time is right, when the window is open, if you don't wait for the opening, you just break windows.

3/8/2013

For Linda ~

I leave you with a poem.

For as leaves caress the darkened street, treating them to welcome rain...
your glances o'er me gently creep, and give me want to rise again...
and in the morning when I wake, my dreams entrenched in gently stirring...
I look around, the gentle sound, is my lover softly purring...

3/7/2013

The truth will unshackle you, but music will lubricate the cuffs ♥

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Open my eyes and see what radiates in these times
Feeling the painted heart just die
Calling their knowledge here while they are on the way
Hording imagination, leading us astray

Use your mind!
You will leave the flesh dimensions behind
Sanity can be the toll
leading to the core of your soul

We are the power inside, we bring you fantasy
We are the kingdom of light and dreams, Gnosis and life.

3/6/2013

I know all too well the dynamic, organic, haunted house nature of the human heart.

3/5/2013

I've spent a lifetime looking for love in all the wrong places, looking for myself in other's faces.

Until I found out who I was, and could let it go just because, it was only going to be the anchor that weighed me down.

Then you came along and turned my life upside down, and that was when after all that time, it all aligned.