When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Pema Chdrn’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 apartwhen we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chdrn 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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Author/Artist:Chodron, Pema
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Author: Choedroen, Pema

Tibetan Buddhism

Published on 7 March 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers (Harper Thorsons) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 208 pages
197 x 129 x 14 | 154g

Pema Chdrn reveals the vast potential for happiness, wisdom and courage even in the most painful circumstances.

Pema Chdrn teaches that there is a fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach, yet we usually miss it ironically, while we are caught up in attempt to escape pain and suffering.

This accessible guide to compassionate living shows us how we can use painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion and courage, ways of communication that lead to openness and true intimacy with others, practices for reversing our negative habitual patterns, methods for working with chaotic situations and ways to cultivate compassionate, energetic social action

Recently profiled in Oprahs O magazine, Pema Chdrn is a spiritual teacher for anyone whether they have a spiritual path or not. Her heartfelt advice and wisdom (developed in her 20 years of practice as a Tibetan Buddhist nun as well as her years previously as a normal housewife and mother) give her a wide appeal. This advice strikes just the right note, offering us comfort and challenging us to live deeply and contribute to creating a more loving world.