'Pepe' Frog, Cubism, unknown artist, first quarter of 21st century

Above is highly related to Jala Neti and Pranayama exercises, and how one can observe that at any given point one nostril is dominant in the breathing process due to how energy flows.

Within the network of nadis, there are ten main channels, and of these ten three are most important for they control the flow of prana and consciousness within all all the other nadis of the body. These three are called Ida, pingala and sushumna. Ida nadi controls all the mental processes, while pingala nadi controls all the vital processes. Ida is known as the moon, and pingala as the sun. A third nadi, sushumna, is the channel for the awakening of spiritual consciousness.

Ida and pingala function in the body alternately and not simultaneously. If you observe your nostrils, you will find that generally one is flowing freely and the other is blocked. When the left nostril is open, it is the lunar energy or ida nadi which is flowing. When the right nostril is free, the solar energy or pingala nadi is flowing.

The breath is a powerful tool. The first step to harnessing it is having a passive awareness of it. Do not jump into intentionally forcing the breath to do what you want on your own without following a formal practice. You do not have to do anything to achieve simple awareness, rather, you only need to become consciously aware of that which has been going on inside your body since you were born. This basic exercise of 'watching' your breath is a very important step to realizing your true nature. It is highly instrumental in taming restlessness.

The first video is a short introduction I would highly recommend. If that speaks to you the second is a more in-depth look.
https://youtu.be/KwRqWW79kFg
https://youtu.be/4kY4zVThpro

Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

Bhagavad Gita 3.21

[Picture: "Crossing the Rubicon"]

"You are allowed to enchain kings and trample all over them because they are abhorred by the Holy Ghost whom you signify perhaps. Only, do not be too clever and do not undertake to do away with the mountains that belong to God. Until then, you will be invincible, but not much longer, and you will understand soon enough."
- Léon Bloy, The Soul of Napoleon

Simon de Vos, The Death of Decius Mus, 1641

The pontifex instructed him to don the toga praetexta, to veil his head and, with one hand held out from under his toga touching his chin, to stand on a spear laid under his feet and speak as follows: 'Janus, Jupiter, Mars Pater, Quirinus, Bellona, Lares, divine Novensiles, divine Indigetes, gods whose power extends over us and over our enemies, divine Manes, I pray to you, I revere you, I beg your favour and beseech you that you advance the strength and success of the Roman people … As I have pronounced in these words … I devote the legions and auxiliaries of the enemy along with myself, to the divine Manes and to Earth.'

Folio 150: "In the year 1545, on the twenty-ninth date of March, on Palm Sunday, a terrible, ghastly vision was seen in the kingdom of Poland. At eight o'clock in the morning, a great peal of thunder struck. After this, three red crosses were seen in the east, in the middle of which was a man in armour with a fiery sword. A great band of warriors came towards him on horseback and on foot and fought with him until one o'clock in the afternoon..." 

"For René Guénon, the "hermetic tradition" concerns a knowledge that is "not metaphysical" but rather
''cosmological" (micro-macrocosm relationships). The hermetic teachings, as specialized bodies of knowledge, are only derived and secondary, with respect to principles."

- 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑬𝒔𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒗𝒓𝒆

"Clouds and dust are carried by the air, but less intelligent persons say that the sky is cloudy and the air is dirty. Similarly, they also implant material bodily conceptions on the spirit self." (Srimad Bhagavatam, 1.3.31)

Lemurian genetics:

The superior man can make himself honorable, but he cannot ensure that others will honor him. He can make himself trustworthy, but cannot ensure that others will trust him. He can make himself useful, but cannot ensure that others will employ him.

And so, the gentleman is ashamed of not being cultivated; he is not ashamed of being maligned. He is ashamed of not being trustworthy; he is not ashamed of not being trusted. He is ashamed of being incapable; he is not ashamed of not being employed.

Thus, he is not tempted by praise, nor is he intimidated by slander.

~ Xunzi

"Representations of the beyond realize our desires, not because they point towards the far distance, but towards something that is very close to us; they are projections. In this sense, approach both confirms the religions and their greatness and at the same time it does away with them."

Ernst Jünger and Albert Hofmann

"In the politico-social field the phenomenon presents such definite forms that it is almost superfluous to linger on them. No one is so myopic as to fail to understand, by now, what the famous “social justice,” for example, really means. It is in no way true justice, the distributive justice of the suum cuique, based on a principle of inequality, and already defended by the classics beginning with Aristotle and Cicero. It is rather a partisan pseudojustice, at the exclusive service of the interests of the lowest classes, the socalled “workers,” and at the expense of all others. It exists under the sign of myths that serve only to pave the way little by little for the ascent of the leftist forces in the State." - Julius C. Evoal, Recognitions

"One should react, that is, not in the name of “proletarian” so-called “social” or collectivist values, but rather in the name of aristocratic, qualitative and spiritual ones: that which could bring about a yet more radical rectifying action, if only men could be found who are truly up to the heights, and who are armed with sufficient authority and power, so as to prevent or to smash, by a revolution from the heights, any such velleity or principle of revolution from below." - Julius C. Evola, Recognitions

"Because God's Son could not suffer in the Godhead and in eternity, the heavenly Father sent him into time, to become man and suffer. So, if you want to be God's son and yet do not want to suffer, you are wrong. In the Book of Wisdom it says that God proves and tests to find out who is righteous, as we prove and test gold by fire in a furnace (Wisd. 3:5-6). It is a sign that a king or a prince trusts a knight when he sends him into battle. I have seen one lord who sometimes, when he had taken a man into his retinue, would send him out by night and then attack him and fight with him. And once it happened that he was nearly killed by a man he wanted to test in this way; and he was much fonder of that retainer afterward than before."

- Meister Eckhart, The Book of Divine Comfort

"The kshatriya – the ‘knightly’ type – has a keen intelligence, but it is turned towards action and analysis rather than towards contemplation and synthesis; his strength lies especially in his character; he makes up for the aggressiveness of his energy by his generosity and for his passionate nature by his nobility, self-control and greatness of soul.

For this human type it is action that is ‘real’, for it is by action that things are determined, modified and ordered; without action there is neither virtue nor honour nor glory.

In other words the kshatriya believes in the efficacy of action rather than in the fatedness of a given situation: he despises the tyranny of facts and thinks only of determining their order, of clarifying a chaos, of cutting Gordian knots."

— Frithjof Schuon, The Meaning of Caste.

Those among kshatriya rulers who perform great sacrifices, who are possessed of a knowledge of the Vedas, and who gain victories in battle, become foremost of those that acquire many blessed heavenly regions hereafter... There is no higher duty for the kshatriya than defeating corrupt people.

Mahabharata, Raja-dharma-anushasana Parva, 60