We always have a choice, Pema Chodron 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 book teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others,
to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and