Customer Reviews
Essential reading - By: Hannah, 15 Dec 2007 
This book is a life-saver, I have already worn out my first copy & am on to the second. I can honestly say that it is the most helpful book I have ever read. Pema Chodron gets to the heart of life's problems & gives genuine, useful, sane advice. Buy it!
Comfort in a Book - By: Laura Thomson, 05 Dec 2007 A very gentle, calming, comfortable read, this book is taken from the transcripts of various talks which Chodron edited while taking a year out. She looks in detail at suffering & how to live with it rather than how to obliterate it. She mentions loss, addiction, distraction, boredom - the whole picture of what might be described as negativity. Not once does she say, 'Pull yourself together.' Instead the advice is to sit with your feelings, make friends with them & yourself, label your thoughts, meditate, treat yourself (and others) with loving-kindness. I feel like I've been hugged by a very wise & very compassionate being & will seek out more of her work.
Excellent - By: C. A. Rodger, 17 May 2007 Amazing book in that everything the author wrote reallly connected with what I was feeling. You don't have to know anything about Buddhism to read this book - it is a great book for anyone who is struggling with life & looking for happiness.
A delight to read - By: , 18 Dec 2003 I found this book lying around a house I've recently moved from. I don't know who bought it or what it was doing there, but the timing for finding it couldn't be better. I was having a bit of a hard time, & life was generallly pants. I picked up the book as the title intrigued me, & to be honest, it was the best medicine I could have hoped for. No matter who you are, or where you come from, there's is guaranteed to be something to relate to in here. I personallly read so much that rang true, it made me feel glad to be part of this world.
I read the book a while ago, & will definately be buying it for myself, it's enlightening to read, no words can describe how wonderful it is.
A life changing book that I read time and time again - By: , 15 Aug 2001 I bought this book eighteen months ago when I was struggling with life. Pema Chodron's compassion, experience & wisdom provided immediate comfort, transformed my outlook on life & started me on the road to learning more about meditation & later Buddhism. I often re-read chapters & have sent several copies to friends who have found it equallly rewarding. The cassette tape version provides a useful alternative method of 'reading' the same book & complements the hardcopy version. A 'must have' for anyone in a hard place.
