Tonglen Practice Quotes

#1. Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Pema Chodron

#2. The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Ptolemy

#3. The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

Barack Obama

#4. We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

Annie Barrows

#5. Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Monica Johnson

#6. Tonglen means "taking in and sending out". This meditation practice is designed to help ordinary people like ourselves connect with the openness and softness of our hearts. Instead of shielding and protecting our soft spot, with tonglen we could let ourselves feel what it is to be human.

Pema Chodron

#7. The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

Britney Spears