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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times Paperback - 2000

by Pema Chodron


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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.

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Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. She is the author of many books and audiobooks, including the best-selling When Things Fall Apart and Don't Bite the Hook.

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Embarking on the spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands.

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  • Title When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
  • Author Pema Chodron
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Shambhala Publications, Boston
  • Date September 26, 2000
  • ISBN 9781570623448 / 1570623449
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Religious life - Buddhism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96009509
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.344

Media reviews

"Pema Chodron is one of those spiritual teachers who brings ancient wisdom to bear upon our daily triumphs and tragedies. . . . Incredibly wise and poignantly practical."—Spirituality & Health

"Chödrön's book is filled with useful advice about how Buddhism helps readers to cope with the grim realities of modern life, including fear, despair, rage and the feeling that we are not in control of our lives . . . Chödrön demonstrates how effective the Buddhist point of view can be in bringing order into disordered lives."—Publishers Weekly



"This is a book that could serve you for a lifetime."—Natural Health



"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

About the author

Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. She is the author of many books and audiobooks, including the best-selling When Things Fall Apart and Don't Bite the Hook.
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