Week 4: Svadyaya

 

स्वद्यय

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

—Cervantes

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. - Tao Te Ching

You become what you think about all day long.

—Ralph Waldo Emrson

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
—Michel de Montaigne

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
—William Butler Yeats

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. 

— Carl Jung

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands--but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.
—Ananda Coomaraswamy

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
 — Mahatma Gandhi
  
Pranayama Practice Week 4