Nikiverse

“Karma simply means we have created the blueprint for our lives. It means we are the makers of our own fate. When we say “This is my karma,” we are actually saying “I am responsible for my life.”
― Sadhguru, Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny

“She wiped the mirror so she could look at herself. Mediocre and grim, she thought. Not mediocre, her face, with wide gray eyes, fine nose and smile, but it was grim. A good body, but so long disregarded it seemed grim too.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“We are part of a long tradition of suffering. We can let it isolate us if we want, but we must realize that isolation is a lie.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment

“I'd owned enough New Age tchotchkes in my lifetime to know that within a few days of purchase they just seemed like more crap. But as you were shopping, sifting through the stones and their meanings, there was hope that this was a turning point. It was the velocity of buying something that was the high, the potentiality of it. I could capitalist-believe in magic.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces