It is human to make mistakes. We should not neglect them, nor think we can never be prone to making them. As long as we can come to terms with our faults and acknowledge them to ourselves and others, we will find forgiveness.



Forgive Me

For something to be an art, it doesn't have to possess any other reason for its existence, other than itself. I think you would agree that love may be the only thing that fits this form perfectly.



The Art of Love

One truth that is so simple, and yet so easily forgotten. No matter what we do or don’t do in life, time shall pass. 

Time Shall Pass

Only change is constant. We relentlessly discard the old and adopt the new, gradually changing the entire world along the way. I wonder, if we could only have a glimpse of the future, how would that new world that we are constantly building look like?

New World

There is just no place like home. Wherever we are and whatever we do, it is a great comfort to know that no matter what, we will always have that special place that will be there waiting for us. A home is so much more than just a plain structure made to keep us warm and safe. It is a fine balance between memories, emotions and the overall atmosphere that gives us the sense of peace, serenity, and a sense of belonging. Unfortunately, in today’s world, many people are simply denied that. We bear witness to the tragic events that are forcing people to leave everything behind, and look for 	their happiness elsewhere. They head into the unknown never knowing if they will ever come back, or find another place to call their home.

Coming Home

I remember clearly when one of my childhood guitar heroes, the great Carlos Santana once said: ”Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life”. And honestly, I can’t say that I  did give much thought about it then. It seems that some words require time to be understood, and that true wisdom can only be acquired through age and experience. Today, I dare to say some instead of many years later, I admire his prudence as much as I admire his music. The truth that I only came to realize as of late is that no matter whether we look around, or within ourselves we will find duality. The two sides fighting for supremacy, no matter how opposite they may be are always present in every one of us, and everything that we know of. There isn’t anything that can entirely be positive or negative, good or bad, true or false, but only a balanced harmony of the two that creates a whole. Just as the day is a fine balance of light and darkness, the atom of positive and negative energy, so is in each and every one of us a plethora of opposite thoughts, feelings and characters that define us in our unique ways. 

Despite everything that I’ve just said, I believe that mere words aren’t the most potent medium of translating this message, and certainly not a medium that I am very comfortable with. So with the help of a very special guest on this track, my friend and an outstanding vocalist Oliver Katic, I have tried to bring this story closer to you the best way that I possibly can, through music.

Duality

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you wake up? If you are living something that could be called a "modern" life by today's standards, chances are that many things would come to you all at once, and most likely none of them would be very pleasant. The old Chinese philosopher Confucius once said that life is actually quite simple, but that we are the ones who insist on making it difficult. Well, I believe he had a point there. Because at the end of the day, what is our life all about? Quite simple, it is about us. 
As selfish as this statement may seem, I know that deep down all of us know that there just isn't any other way. We only get to live our own life and not somebody else’s, don't we? So why do we keep pushing ourselves last? Because we need something or someone to take the blame for us not taking our life head on. It's easier to have an excuse for not doing something, than to actually do it. It is easier to take the shortcut that leads nowhere, than to actually take the long journey that might never finish. It's easier to be a passive participant of this one world that we all share, than to be an active fighter who's going for a cause that might already be lost. I will never be like that, and that's why I'm here, because I am.

I Am

Sometimes there is a feeling that just can't be described. It makes you feel so light, that it seems as if the air itself can support your weight. And the time stops. There is nothing else that truly matters at that point and no place that you would rather be than then and there.Feeling the fire that burns inside you, and the tingling of the air all around.

In The Air

Every day man wakes up with it, and every night man lays with it. Hope and life are so closely bound together that they can‘t be viewed separately, but instead, it can be said with great certainty that to live means to have hope. Some of the greatest moments in life are just that because they fulfil our hopes, and some of the deepest lows hit us as we watch our hopes crumble before our very eyes. Even despair doesn‘t mean that all hope is lost, but only that we are too blind to see it. For hope cannot be lost or destroyed, no one can take it away from us, it just changes form and rises from its ashes like a Fenix whenever we are ready to give it a chance. So remember, as long as there is breath within us, there is hope.

Hope

Very few people have the privilege to feel the magic of a sunrise every day. For most of us, that is just something that happens while we are still sound asleep in our beds. But when we do sometimes find ourselves out there ready to embrace the new day that is just starting to take shape before our very eyes, then we have probably done the most important thing for us that day. As Nina Simone said more than half a century ago: "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me. And I'm feeling good."!

Sunrise

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music."
Gustav Mahler

Marko Tanic