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Pema Ch dr n's perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth--now in a newly designed 20th-anniversary edition with a new afterword by Pema--makes for a perfect gift and addition to one's spiritual library.

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart--when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Ch dr n suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Chodron, Pema
ISBN: 9781611803433
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.60
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Year: 2016

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This book changed my life.

Kaitlyn C. - 4 years 6 months ago

Whether you're dealing with grief, anger, jealousy, or any other kind of discontent, Pema Chodron can help you make it to the other side. She won't make it easier, but you'll never deal with pain the same way after reading her. I recommend reading one chapter a day until you finish it, and do that again every year. This is the book that taught me how to be. Thanks, Pema!
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Gentle reminders, advice.

Jay C. - 5 years 6 months ago

Such a great book, whether you are falling apart or not. Wonderful Pema advice which I boil down to: "When your falling, dive" which is another of her books. Gentle advice that feels like a warm hug and a reminder that we are all, really, going to be OK. Also a great intro to Zen Buddhism and letting go. #RequiredReading #BannedBook
Refreshing, simple, hopeful, truly healing, everyone will find good in this book.

Laura S. - 5 years 10 months ago

This is a book recommended to me by a friend in a discussion group. It's written by a Buddhist nun and addresses some of the issues we all face. This book is simple, plain language and intensely spiritual; read it slowly. I am Catholic and find this book less judgemental and more refreshing and hopeful than some other religious material I have read. We all have things we can learn from others when it comes to dealing with the pain, fear, sorrow, self hatred, etc. in our life. I sometimes shy away from "self help" books because many are shallow and trendy. If you even have a notion to buy this book. please do it.
Essential reading for learning how to make it in this world as a human being

Blake G. - 5 years 10 months ago

The world is always falling apart, sometimes more than others! This book is essential for helping us navigate a broken world by turning inward.

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This book changed my life.

Gentle reminders, advice.

Refreshing, simple, hopeful, truly healing, everyone will find good in this book.

Essential reading for learning how to make it in this world as a human being