The Places That Scare You
A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
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Joanna Rotte
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Pema Chödrön
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We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This audiobook teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.
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Simply the best!!
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Brilliantly Wise Investment
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Wonderful
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- Aida Faber
- 2020-10-11
The voice of the narrator gives it life
This book was full of ancient wisdom and enlightenment. The soothing voice of the narrotor the perfect medium.
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- Jessica
- 2021-12-16
Very helpful for those who are not sure how to go on
Just stay, not trying to change it, condemn it or judging it. Great book. Highly recommend this
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- 9057829909
- 2021-07-25
Excellent listen !
It was excellent listen great book! Got a lot from it going to apply nuggets!
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- JPal
- 2018-09-19
So much wisdom!
This is one of my go to resources on the path, especially when I’m feeling scared, angry, overwhelmed, etc. Pema’s wisdom helps me to soften to my own inner experience, and then to what is going on around me. That softening inevitably leads me to seeing a way forward with gentle openhearted confidence. #Audible1
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- Gail
- 2021-01-15
Pema is amazing!
I love the calm that I experience as I read this book. I feel that everything is ok just as it is.
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- fariba gharaei
- 2019-02-02
great
very informative and common sence
I have to read it couple times to master the wisdom
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- Mellisa
- 2020-07-16
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So much love for this book , so beautiful ... just loved this book and I am looking forward to definitely listening to more books by Pema ... I’m on to learn how to meditate by Pema Chödrön ... peace and live that’s what I feel from listening to this book . Profound peaceness
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- Derek
- 2021-01-14
Excellent read
It was a good book with many lessons. It's definitely one that's need to be picked up more than once.
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