Snippets By Jonathan Berman

10/31/2013

Don't base your beautiful gestures on what people have first done for you, be the love you want to see in the world.

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When you worry, I won't say don't worry.
When you're sad, I won't say don't be sad.
Whatever you're feeling, we'll explore together.
Life's not about creating dams to stop the flow of tumultuous waters.
It's a little trip we take together, and there's nothing we can't see our way through.

Every emotion is a leaf falling from the tree
I'd rather jump in them than rake them away

Join me?

10/30/2013

I am a ghost in a meat puppet hiding a skeleton... I am the spooky thing in the night.

10/29/2013

You have the power of resurgence, within the heart of man you summon
A bird in flight on compassion's wings, for you of grace, are Woman.

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It is usually in what others call the mess that I find the magic.

10/24/2013

Our waking life is a dreaming moth, filled with the filtered messages, symbols and storylines chosen by our subconscious to lead us to the butterfly.

10/22/2013

One time I saw a forest, and every single tree I met afterward seemed to be longing to be a part of that forest.

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Everyone ages, what matters is how our attitude matures, not our face... the face tells a different story, one it seems few can hear.

10/16/2013

The eye is the most precious of all jewels. Whose facets reflect eternity, every aspect and side of humanity. Where dreams take purchase, where wings are pushed to flight, where freedom lasts forever, in the span of just one night.

10/15/2013

"At the end of the day, we’re all gonna make mistakes. We’re all going to do things we regret, even to those we care about. It’s unavoidable. But at the end, what matters is how you address your failings. How you treat your family, how you treat your friends, how you forgive, and how you love. Oh, and one more thing I’ve realized. You never get the whole bucket list done. You just keep adding things to it, because every day there’s something new to amaze us. It’s how we know we’re alive. So be surprised. Cherish the time you have, ‘cause every day is a gift, every moment a blessing."

~Bones, S09E05

10/13/2013

Your path is your own, validity is subjective.
Beauty doubly so, a prime directive.
What works for you your own, and if it does, embrace it.
Wings you've flown to carry you to the next inspiration.
You meet someone with a similar fire.
Melody born to harmonize, constructs desire.
Ecstacy that births the sky,
Universe of love in the blink of an eye.

10/11/2013

I give myself the best gift, it can't be bought or lost, but somehow I find it. A quiet moment when night is calm, like a bubble I inject myself into just before the dawn. I face my mortality, simmer in reality, imagining only love and those I love are all around me. These moments last forever, these moments go by much too fast. Poetry is the present, it's future is my past.

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Clothing isn't always made with fabric, sometimes it's made with mind states. We wear attitudes and perceptions that fit, altering our world to its relevant and descript. We become a woven story of our desires, delusions, armor for confusion. Empowered ghosts protected from above, while the backdrop of our reality hangs tattered and dripping with blood.

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It's not what you look at, but how you look at it.