Pema Chodron

Offers advice on uncovering inner wisdom and opening one's heart while refusing to allow resentfulness and fear to block one's inner light.

A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

The Places That Scare You

Pema Chödrön

The author of the best-selling When Things Fall Apart offers insightful and compassionate advice on uncovering inner wisdom and opening one's heart while refusing to allow resentfulness and fear to block one's inner light. Reprint.

A really beautiful book that makes ideas about Buddhism and meditation and the like very accessible. There are a thousand quotable lines and I've scribbled most of them down in my notebook, wanting to remember them by pressing a pen down to form the letters. A great read for someone going through a tough time but also just a generally great read for anyone? Because we've all been through tough times at some point? Unless you're a robot. But that's besides the point and I'm using humour to cover up the fact that this book hit me so hard at various points and just really made me reevaluate quite a few things about how I have been doing things in my life.

Lissa Aguilar

The way Pema writes gives a clear understanding to the bare lessons of Buddhism. This book is a great source to learning more about being aware of one's own actions and feelings, especially the ones that we are so quick to mask and avoid. Important lessons I've learned: life is always changing, mixed with the good and bad; we should never avoid our feelings but remain in the moment, understand what its about and what it means about us/ourself, then move on. Then most importantly, love your neighbor, our enemies, and especially ourselves.

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

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