Category: Poem

In the Eyes of Our Enemy

May we have the courage to sit down with our enemies

Look into their eyes

Seek to understand why they harm us

To truly love someone we must first have the courage to understand them

Keep asking questions and seek to understand with curiosity

Soon you will see the suffering in their heart and mind

They were born into the suffering of war, violence, and greed

Taught wrong perceptions by their ancestors and society

If you look deeper we can see that our enemies were once innocent smiling babies

They were not born with hatred and fear in their hearts

With this deep insight, compassion and understanding will be born

This deep love will be liberate us from hatred and violence

And a river a joy will rush through us

This is the way of the peaceful warrior

To love our enemies and pray for those who spite us

With love,

Johnny

Many Streams, One Ocean

Many streams go to one ocean

Many paths to the mountain top

May we be liberated from religious dogma

May we be free to see the truth within all spiritual traditions

May we be curious and open minded

Like a child with a beginners mind

All we know is that we know nothing for certain

Pride, arrogance and closed mindedness keep us from seeing this beautiful truth

We don’t truly know what will happen to us when we die

We will never know what God truly is in this life time

All war and violence stems from believing we have the truth or that we are the chosen people

When discrimination and hatred enter the human heart, suffering and war are inevitable

May we stay humble and full of grace

Your brother,

Johnny

Beyond Beliefs

Beyond all beliefs

There is a sanctuary

Let’s meet there

A land of no hatred

No dogma

No sinners

No fear

No religion

Only compassion for all beings

A kingdom of radical peace

A land of unconditional love for all, no matter how lost they are in the darkness of hatred and fear

Lets meet there right now on this beautiful planet

With love,

Johnny

Letting Go of Old Identities

Today I fully let go of my old identity

I stand today liberated from any attachments to who I once was

I am reborn today

I am not a gambler

I am not a party boy

I am not a ladies man

God has granted me a new identity

A path of love

A path of compassion and forgiveness

My new identity is of a peaceful warrior

I am a poet

I am an adventurer into the unknown

I am a mystic

A follower of God’s unconditional love

Thank you, thank you 🙏

With love,

Johnny

Within Your Heart

Burn down all churches, temples and mosques

Burn down all holy books

But don’t burn down the human heart!

That’s where God is

The seed of true unconditional love is within us

This seed is patiently waiting to be watered but we must still our minds first

In stillness the holy spirit can transform us

But only if our heart is open to unconditional love

Mother Earth

How we look at Earth

Is how we look at women

Is our planet disposable or precious?

Is our mother earth here to be exploited or to be shown unconditional love?

Is earth just to produce for us or is she divine?

We must look at mother earth through the lens of unconditional love to see this.

The same goes for women.

Do we take for granted our Earth as we do our women?

Or do we pay gratitude and love to both?

With love,

Johnny

The Awaken One Within

Beneath the hatred

Beneath the doubt

Beneath the fear

Beneath the greed

Beneath the addictions

Beneath the suffering

There is a gem

More precious than diamonds

Beneath the chaos is a deep source of unconditional love

A love so deep and healing

A love that can liberate us from fear

This is the mission of my life

To dive deeper into this source of unconditional love and let it transform me

We are all born with the capacity to awaken and become enlightened

With this source of love we can help the world heal from hatred, fear and violence

We can walk more and more like Jesus did on this earth

We are all Buddhas(awaken one) to be

Don’t doubt or limit yourself

With love,

Johnny

The Revolutionary Message of Jesus

Jesus was a revolutionary
A revolutionary of unconditional love
Of radical peace
Anyone who speaks his name through the lens of fear, hatred or greed does not know his way

Jesus’s way is of the peaceful warrior
He knew that only unconditional love can bring peace to the world

Fear and violence will only continue our own suffering
Only unconditional love can save us
It can liberate us from all self-centeredness
His way can free us from the shackles of greed, hatred and fear
Resurrection is possible if we surrender as he did on the cross

We can be reborn each moment if we follow his way

We don’t need to be a Christian to follow Jesus’s message of unconditional love for all living beings

We only need to have an open mind and a compassionate heart

With love,

Johnny Hoffman