When Things Fall Apart
Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Shambhala · Print & ebook · June 7, 2016
Pema Chödrön'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.
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- Who it’s for
- Spare, steady reflections for sitting with difficulty without pretending it’s simple.
- Themes
- spirituality, personal growth, overcoming suffering
- Pacing
- Reflective
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Pema Chödrön'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?
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The answer, Pema Chödrön 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.
Steady Counsel
Spare, steady reflections for sitting with difficulty without pretending it’s simple.
Come here for
- contemplative Buddhist counsel
- keepsake-friendly wisdom
Expect
- heart advice rather than doctrine
- layered guidance for repeated reading
Where it sits
| Buddhism - General | 44% |
|---|---|
| Meditation | 33% |
| Buddhist Thought | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Meditation
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Personal Growth
- Authors
- Pema Chodron, Pema Chödrön
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Published
- June 7, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- spirituality · personal growth · overcoming suffering
- Reading lane
- Meditation