When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, by Pema Chödrön

Taken from talks that Pema Chödrön gave in the 1990s, When Things Fall Apart is a treasury of wisdom
for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties.

An America-born Tibetan Buddhist, Pema draws from traditional Buddhist wisdom to offer a way to
rethink our lives and lean into discomfort and struggles in order to live a more peaceful life. Fear of
change and death is at the root of all our misery. Once we believe that everything is always changing
and ending, we will suffer less. Can pick and choose among the 22 Chapters and many insights.

“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things
don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again.”

Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times