BE YOU ***** Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. It worked for me, and will continue to work. Faithless to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive. You cannot change what you are, only what you do. You are you. Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with God, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment. I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all. "I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which no human being can fully fight. "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” – William Shakespeare The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints. #happybirthday #soloswazz https://www.instagram.com/p/CEp4jaqD2Ts/?igshid=18th0gf9uhd0w