Rikarda Elsa

“When I see the sun, I see you—
rising without fear,
burning without asking the sky for permission.

In your light, my fate awakens,
like dawn touching the quiet edges of my soul.

You are not just the shine—
you are the reason the morning believes in tomorrow.

And every golden ray that falls on my face
whispers softly,
“Love was written in light… and it looks like you.”
― Manmohan Mishra

“Everyone insists [motherhood] is her purpose, and it drives her mad, the idea that the shape of her body determines the shape her life must take.
That her beauty is something she is expected to pass on instead of keep.
That anything she makes will thrive while she is left to wither.”
― Victoria Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“The quality of activities cannot be raised, unless we raise the very texture of our thoughts and the depth of our understanding.”
― Chinmayananda, Inward Journey

“The term yoga, derived from the Sanskrit root yuj, ‘to control’, “to yoke’ or ‘to unite’, refers to these technologies or disciplines of asceticism and meditation which are thought to lead to spiritual experience and profound understanding or insight into the nature of existence. Yoga is the means whereby the mind and senses can be restrained, the limited, empirical self or ego (ahamkara) can be transcended and the self’s true identity eventually experienced. It is this aspect of Hinduism which is not necessarily confined to any particular Hindu worldview [...] The concept of yoga as a spiritual discipline not confined to any particular sectarian affiliation or social form, contains the following important features: — consciousness can be transformed through focusing attention on a single point; — the transformation of consciousness eradicates limiting, mental constraints or impurities such as greed and hate; — yoga is a discipline, or range of disciplines, constructed to facilitate the transformation of consciousness.”
― Gavin D. Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism