Week 6: Anja Chakra

अन्ज छक्र

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

 — Rumi

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
― William Blake 

  

 There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
― August Strindberg

  

 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
― Albert Einstein

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

 ― Mahatma Gandhi

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
― Meister Eckhart

 

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ― T.S. Eliot

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And without feet I can make my way to you,
without a mouth I can swear your name.

Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

 ― Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. 

Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
― G.K. Chesterton 

 

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, 

while the left eye peers into the microscope.

 ― Leonora Carrington

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
― Marcel Proust

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.  

― Edgar Allan Poe

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; 

the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
― Plato

Pranayama Practice: Week 6

Symbols for Ajna Chakra
Assignment 1
Assignment 2