Navigating Difficult Times with Heart: Advice from When Things Fall Apart

A. Richard Weaver: Good quality

United States on Oct 26, 2023

Debbie: Ive read this book multiple times but I buy it for those I know when someone is going through a very rough time

Canada on Oct 25, 2023

Lisa W.: Such a great book to reset habits, thinking and your mentality

United States on Oct 24, 2023

Amazon Customer: How many times do we need to hear the truth before we listen?

These teachings are entirely consistent with those of a neuropsychologist who wrote The Grieving Brain.

Thank you

United Kingdom on Oct 11, 2023

Amazon Customer: This was exactly the right book at the right time for me when it came into my hands. I’m so grateful for Peña’s wise and compassionate words

United Kingdom on Sep 18, 2023

Lisa M Johnson: This book really opened my heart to life in authenticity. Very grateful for the insights and soul growth this book and teachings gifted me.

United States on Aug 29, 2023

maydee stone: This book helped at my lowest. Even after reading it from the library. I had to have it as a tool. When ever I am even a little lost. 10 minutes into it and I feel better. Even as old as it is. It still holds true. We deal with things in are body and mind the same way.

United States on Aug 27, 2023

Irawati: The book so beautiful and easily talks of our fears, our potential for kindness and for being witnesses to our own process of life as it unfolds! 2 of my major take aways:
1. Simply worded practical method for meditative practice
2. The view that even our most negative sounding feelings and thoughts are nothing but wisdom.

LOVE IT!

India on Aug 08, 2023

Grace O'Malley: As a therapist, I've used essays/chapters from this book for innumerable group discussions. Pema has a light touch with some humor, and a gentle acceptance of human nature.

United Kingdom on Aug 06, 2023

Nila J. Webster: When I was diagnosed with advanced cancer in 2010, a clinical trial nurse gave me one of the greatest gifts of my life: When Things Fall Apart – my introduction to Pema Chodron. My own experience with cancer is a validation of much of what she writes: “It’s as if we had a terminal disease but might live for quite a while. Not knowing how much time we have left, we might begin to think it was important to make friends with ourselves and others in the remaining hour, months or years.” This statement alone is a brilliant truth. Her writing about the practice of maitri, “developing loving-kindness and an unconditional friendship with ourselves”, is filled with compassion. Her line “It is never too late for any of us to look at our minds” is an invitation to grow. Over the years, I have given this book and others by Pema to countless loved ones and clients.

At the same moment, Pema reveals a flaw in her thinking. Although she warns us not to participate in harshness, she herself levels a wholesale condemnation of theism: that in her mind, a belief in God, a higher power, entity or energy, is tantamount to “abdicating our responsibilities.” Belief, prayer,...

United States on May 17, 2023