Cool, Calm & Collected. 💚 Whitney Houston, Aldous Huxley, Oasis, Anita Baker, George Michael, Carl Jung, DMX, Madonna and Manly P. Hall are some of my faves.
“Life is a great mystery, and only those who pass successfully through its test and trials, interpreting them aright and extracting the essence of experience therefrom, achieve understanding” MPH
Still thinking about how Michelangelo said excellent people like to solitude-max because they don't want to "corrupt themselves with the vain conversation of idle persons and degrade their thoughts"
I just ignore what’s normal for others at this point. I’ve accepted my life is super abnormal and different kinda to an extreme extent in some ways, and it doesn’t do anything for my personal perspective to put any weight on what’s been normal for others to experience vs. what’s been normal for me to experience. I’m minding my business completely because there’s not even a non exhausting way for me to try to explain the fallacies in the usual comparisons regarding what has caused me to live so differently than most people. It’s fine I’m just unique and unable to not follow my unique north star, emotional truths and actionable truths. I know I intended to be this way from my spirit form. Even when it’s been almost torturous to remain centered in myself it’s always been the preferable choice for me because I’ve been listening to something deep and ancient that’s so far removed from normalities and discourses and judgments and opinions and even my own insecurities. The depth is real with me and I wouldn’t change that for anything even though that means some are going to have extreme difficulty understanding ‘why’ or even seeing the ‘why’ when I try to explain it. Or they’ll make it about me as a mere human, my identity alone, when it’s something much larger/higher than that (that I’m following). People will constantly announce what they think is best for you without even knowing any aspects of the mission your soul is on or how much you’re feeling and choosing to sort through. I had to stop caring and just focus on myself despite all the distractions and even ridicule honestly
"You Send Me" was released on this day in 1957, marking Sam's debut as a solo artist and his transition from gospel to secular music. When it hit #1 on Billboard's Rhythm & Blues Records chart and the Billboard Hot 100, his crossover to popular music was complete.
Maxi Priest - Close To You (1990)
Lead single from the British reggae singer's fifth album, Bonafide. Blending pop/R&B styles with a reggae slant, the song was an international hit: Reached #7 in the UK, #2 Australia & topped the US Hot 100. Video directed by Geoffrey Barish.
“I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.”
— Sade Adu