Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>We always have a choice?? Pema Ch?dr?n 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 imperfections?? and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Pema Ch?dr?n may have more good one-liners than a Groucho Marx retrospective?? but this nun's stingers go straight to the heart: "ence of bravery is being without self-deception"; "When we practice generosity?? we become intimate with our grasping" "Difficult people are the greatest teachers." These are the punctuations to specific teachings of fearlessness. In <I>The Places That Scare You</I>?? Ch?dr?n introduces a host of the compassionate warriors' tools and concepts for transforming anxieties and negative emotions into positive living. Rather than stee