Snippets By Jonathan Berman

March 27, 2014

Your path is not to convince others of the validity of yours, but to help others find the validity in theirs.

March 19, 2014

I often think the love we give or the hates we horde define our dreams I try to be less judgmental and more compassionate each day. There are no selfless acts, there is no self to avoid...

March 18, 2014

I like to imagine butterflies flying around me, it's hard to be sad or angry when there are butterflies flying around you...

March 17, 2014

Soul sun, Mind moon
And all the little satellites reflecting.

Heart-shaped ocean, tectonic spine
And every action aligned.

Smoke of whispers, dreams that roam
Poetry people on their way home.

March 16, 2014

I look at Luna's baby pictures from December 2012, and I can't believe she was ever this small. She grew so fast, she's such a big girl now. Time passes so quickly, I often think of the millions, billions of years spanning the life of the universe, but really, our lives are just a bat of an eye. A dream... and like in a dream, the more we try to cling to it the more we simply lose... I appreciate every moment with every atom of my being, my eyes are 100% attentive, here and now, my heart is a dancer on the stage, and with that each moment is a communion, more precious than jewels, only 3 words exist in the present moment's perfect silence, "I love you." carved upon the doorpost of eternity... and on the other side.........

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What is the feeling that leaves me reeling, songs get thrown like fishing lines and all the time I'm hooked, and what is this memory attached to? Sometimes we feel the current so strongly we cannot see at all, caught between the night sky and the dark water... nothing pulls us into the boat, hooked on moonbeams or sun's rays, we're swimming away from ourselves seduced by the currents...

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Whenever I come up with something really smart I think, "Thanks God, for wiring me up so nice." Whenever I come up with something really beautiful I think, God needed my help after all, it was my choices, my struggle that broke me open wide enough, deep enough to find the beauty that is always there before us... Perhaps that is why we are here, not as parasites, oh we can act like that we have the freewill to destroy the world, but we are pieces that came along with the puzzle, we can fit, we can make this a better world to live in. Touch the sky dutchboy, and take your fill of the stars.

March 15, 2014

my heart is full

the sky is an open hand.

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I wonder what moves you deepest... What sets your atoms to spin in a vacuum? To dance in space? To water solar systems in ocean soil? To dream this world from existence to life to love... yes I wonder... I hold thoughts in my hand and squeeze out the emotion, and with each motion, I sing my love to you... my heart, my river, my solace...

March 11, 2014

God forsees every loss, and still he cries for every one. Tears of compassion leads the way to salvation beneath the light of wisdom.
Here in his open palm rests the world.

March 11, 2014

It's about the memories, not the possession. You squeeze the juice from life, and the taste stays with you forever... the rest was meant to be be discarded, let it go.

March 5, 2014

Our life's work is to build castles in the sand, and the ocean's is to wash them away... and yet we still love the ocean do we not?

March 4, 2014

Hatred is simply the absence of love. One who reaches out an opulent but empty champaigne glass, reaches out an empty glass either way... and it is only in the misallocation of priorities that makes the one feel entitled to the other.

March 3, 2014

Let all who come before me carry the visage of their own hearts and minds, that their story be expressed honestly in the light of compassion at the backdrop of eternity.

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Rejoice in your sorrow, for depth of feeling is a direct reflection of the heights of beauty with which you shall be rewarded.

March 1, 2014

So many people chasing the sun
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one
They say they're looking for light, they're looking for warmth
But I'm not looking for anything anymore

There's a lady I know when she smiles
All the clouds disappear behind her eyes
And she'll promise you more while she leaves you with less
But she'll always be the sun in my sky

I've spent my life looking at the moon
Sometimes I feel like you have too
And you say you're looking for love but settling for less
And I'll start in the shade of where you are