The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times - Softcover

Pema Chodron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611805961 ISBN 13: 9781611805963

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Lifelong guidance for learning to change the way we relate to the scary and difficult moments of our lives, showing us how we can use all of our difficulties and fears as a way to soften our hearts and open us to greater kindness. We always have a choice in how we react to the circumstances of our lives. We can let them harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and allow our inherent human kindness to shine through. Here Pema Chödrön provides essential tools for dealing with the many difficulties that life throws our way, teaching us how to awaken our basic human goodness and connect deeply with others to accept ourselves and everything around us complete with faults and imperfections. She shows the strength that comes from staying in touch with what s happening in our lives right now and helps us unmask the ways in which our egos cause us to resist life as it is. If we go to the places that scare us, Pema suggests, we just might find the boundless life we ve always dreamed of.

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Review:

It's short, and so beautifully written that the reading is a pleasure speaks to people of all religious persuasions. The clearsighted practicality of Chödrön's approach to the practice of meditation is a persuasive introduction to its benefits in our daily lives. Her voice is , understanding, gently humorous, always kind and seemingly infinitely wise. The LA Times

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

It is a lively and accessible take on ancient techniques for transforming terror and pain into joy and compassion. O, --the Oprah Winfrey magazine

About the Author:

Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa and resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America. She is the author of numerous best-selling books, including When Things Fall Apart and Living Beautifully.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1611805961
• ISBN 13: 9781611805963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160