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The places that scare you : a guide to fearlessness in difficult times / Pema Chödrön.

By: Material type: TextTextBoston : Shambhala, 2001Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 140 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781570629211
  • 1570624097
  • 99781590304495
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3/444 21
LOC classification:
  • BQ5410 .C433 2001
Online resources: Summary: 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. - From Worldcat
List(s) this item appears in: Books on Engaged Buddhism, Right Livelihood, Ecology, Etc.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-135).

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. - From Worldcat