“doing tonglen for what we are feeling and for millions of other people just like us who at this very moment are feeling exactly the same misery.

Maybe we are able to name our pain

nwe breathe in for all the people who are caught with that same emotion

we send out relief for ourselves and all those countless others.

contact what we are feeling and breathe in, take it in,

for all of us—and

send out relief to all of us.”

Excerpt From
When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chodron