Week 4: Nirodha

निरोध

   

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

—Mahatma Gandhi 

 

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
—C. S. Lewis

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
—Henry David Thoreau

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
― Rabindranath Tagore

 

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
― Albert Einstein

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.”
― Henry David Thoreau

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.
― Michaelangelo


Reading for Week 4
Nirodha 

Pranayama for Week 4
Pranayama/Antara and Bhaya Khumbhaka