When Things Fall Apart
Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron
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 w...
Publish Date
2016-06-07T00:00:00.000Z
2016-06-07T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 1996
Goodreads rating
4.26
ISBN
9781611803433
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Recommendations
9
Recommendations
2020-03-27T13:19:54.000Z
@ggreenwald This book saved me ten years ago. I still go back to it – source2020-03-19T23:50:06.000Z
A friend recommended this extraordinary book during a difficult time I had a few years ago and I can't recommend it highly enough; it's as though it was written for right now.
"When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times" by the brilliant US buddhist Pema Chödrön: – source2020-11-25T00:00:00.000Z
Also a gift for anyone going through a rocky time: “When Things Fall Apart,” by Buddhist teacher Pema Chödron, is brilliant and really helped me accept uncertainty in life. – source2014-11-30T00:00:00.000Z
Profound philosophy on facing the negative emotions head-on and getting to know them well, instead of trying to avoid them or escape. – source2022-08-27T15:57:15.000Z
1/ When Things Fall Apart (Pema Chödrön)
This book taught me to use pain as fuel for courage.
Key takeaway:
When life is falling apart, it’s really just falling into place.
The rough patches in life shape us. When we come out of them, we can emerge stronger than ever. – sourceKind of a sacred text that I carry around with me at all times because things are always falling apart. – source
Has been important to me, and I’ve given to people in my life because it had an impact on me. – source