Anahata Chakra: Week 4

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अनहत छक्र

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

 ― John Bunyan

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. 

― St. Francis of Assisi

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

— William Shakespeare

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. 
The way it stops and starts.
— Edgar Allan Poe

 

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
 ― Doris Lessing

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all — Aristotle

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. 

— Mahatma Gandhi

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me

 ― Emily Dickinson

You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two. 

— Hayao Miyazaki

Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang

 — Lao Tzu

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
― Booker T. Washington

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. — Rumi 

 

 

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls, the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends. The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. From the hurricane and the great whale's sounding to the fall of a dry leaf an the gnat's flight, all they do is done within the balance of the whole.

But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.
— Ursula K. Le Guin

Readings
 Anahata Chakra
Vibrations-Hazrat Inyat Khan

 Practice
Heart Opening Home Practice
Pranayama for Resting the Heart