When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times - Softcover

Chodron, Pema

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611803438 ISBN 13: 9781611803433

Publisher: Shambhala, 2016

Synopsis

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? 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.

About this title

Review:

"Perhaps what makes Pema's message resonate so strongly with people, no matter what their religion or spiritual path, is its universality. Each of us has experienced heartache; how we interact with that feeling, Pema says, can create the possibility of a more joyful life."
--O, The Oprah Magazine

"As one of Pema Chödrön's grateful students, I have been learning the most pressing and necessary lesson of all: how to keep opening wider my own heart."
--Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist

From the Back Cover:

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. In this book, Pema Chodron's shows:
· Ways to use painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion and courage
· Ways to communicate that lead to openness and true intimacy with others
· Practices for reversing our negative habitual patterns
Methods for working with chaotic situations
· Ways to cultivate compassionate, energetic social action

Recently profiled in Oprah’s O magazine, Pema Chodron 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1611803438
• ISBN 13: 9781611803433
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176