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When Things Fall Apart
Featured Article: The Audible Essentials—The Top 100 Well-Being Listens of All Time
We assembled our editors, scoured listener reviews, polled our most-trusted colleagues, and listened our ears off to bring you this list of 100 must-listen well-being titles on Audible. Whether you’re looking to get organized, stay motivated, find creative inspiration, or relieve stress, these audiobooks and podcasts are packed with insights from self-development and wellness experts to help you take the next step—or the first—in your personal journey.
Best Sellers
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When Things Fall Apart
- Heart Advice for Difficult Times
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Christy Meyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall450
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Performance403
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Story403
How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect....
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SOS
- By LV on 07-28-23
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When Things Fall Apart
- Heart Advice for Difficult Times
- Narrated by: Christy Meyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-03-23
- Language: English
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Another Kind of Freedom
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Erin Humphrey Konuma
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
In a world of endless distractions and quick fixes that leave us wanting, beloved Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön, author of When Things Fall Apart, reveals why true freedom arises not in escape but in developing our natural capacity for presence, openness, and wholehearted acceptance.
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Amazing insight
- By SD on 04-26-26
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Another Kind of Freedom
- Narrated by: Erin Humphrey Konuma
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-07-26
- Language: English
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How We Live Is How We Die
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Olivia Darnley
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall334
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Performance284
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Story284
Discover newfound freedom in life’s ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Chödrön, beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart....
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Dealing with disappointment!
- By Sabine Blanchard on 10-19-22
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How We Live Is How We Die
- Narrated by: Olivia Darnley
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-04-22
- Language: English
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Start Where You Are
- A Guide to Compassionate Living
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotté
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall713
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Performance593
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Story586
Start Where You Are is an indispensable book for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön offers guidance on how we can accept our flaws and embrace ourselves wholeheartedly as a prerequisite for developing compassion....
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No thank you
- By Susan V. on 06-22-21
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Start Where You Are
- A Guide to Compassionate Living
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotté
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 11-21-22
- Language: English
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Smile at Fear
- Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
- By: Chögyam Trungpa, Carolyn Rose Gimian - editor, Pema Chödrön - foreword
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Karen White, Steven Crossley
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,532
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Performance2,170
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Story2,144
Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being....
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Essential & Powerful
- By Sara on 12-18-14
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Smile at Fear
- Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Karen White, Steven Crossley
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-09-14
- Language: English
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Be Grateful to Everyone
- An In-Depth Guide to the Practice of Lojong
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall155
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Performance134
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Story132
One of the best ways to bring meditation off the cushion and into everyday life is to practice lojong (or mind training). For centuries, Tibetans have used fifty-nine powerful mind-training slogans as a way to transform life’s ordinary situations into opportunities for awakening....
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Best Heart
- By rally_squirrel_west on 03-13-18
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Be Grateful to Everyone
- An In-Depth Guide to the Practice of Lojong
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-21-22
- Language: English
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The Fearless Heart
- The Practice of Living with Courage and Compassion
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall231
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Performance196
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Story193
Fear and guilt are two of the greatest challenges we face on the spiritual path—but there is a way to transform these painful feelings into courageous self-acceptance....
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Bad quality of Audio!
- By Claudinchka on 05-13-19
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The Fearless Heart
- The Practice of Living with Courage and Compassion
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-28-22
- Language: English
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Pure Meditation
- The Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Inner Peace
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance33
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Story31
For 1,300 years, Tibetans have been practicing shamatha-vipashyana (peaceful dwelling-insight), a profound form of meditation that illuminates and purifies the obstacles to spiritual realization. Tibetan Buddhists today regard shamatha-vipashyana as both the fundamental and the most advanced...
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Good Content, Poor Audio Quality
- By Pantelis on 09-09-03
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Pure Meditation
- The Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Inner Peace
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-19-01
- Language: English
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The Heart of Bravery
- A Retreat with Sakyong Mipham and Pema Chodron
- By: Pema Chödrön, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance22
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Story22
Two of the world's most beloved spiritual teachers and leading figures in the Shambhala tradition of Buddhism discuss the core principles and practices of the tradition and how personal meditation practice can forge an enlightened society. Best-selling authors Pema Chödrön and Sakyong Mipham...
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Grateful for Insights on Bravery
- By Kindle Customer on 02-09-26
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The Heart of Bravery
- A Retreat with Sakyong Mipham and Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 12-26-17
- Language: English
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Training the Mind
- & Cultivating Loving-Kindness
- By: Chögyam Trungpa, Judith L. Lief - editor, Pema Chödrön - foreword
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,009
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Performance867
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Story854
Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to awaken the heart and cultivate love and kindness toward others....
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A great experience
- By Sunnycanuck on 05-27-15
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Training the Mind
- & Cultivating Loving-Kindness
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-09-14
- Language: English
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Comfortable with Uncertainty
- 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall402
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Performance339
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Story328
This audiobook by Pema Chödrön, the renowned American Buddhist nun, offers short, stand-alone sections designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than a collection of thoughts for the day, Comfortable with Uncertainty offers a progressive...
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Favorite
- By K Harris on 01-07-19
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Comfortable with Uncertainty
- 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-26-17
- Language: English
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This Moment Is the Perfect Teacher
- Ten Buddhist Teachings on Cultivating Inner Strength and Compassion
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance77
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Story76
Lojong is a powerful Tibetan Buddhist practice created especially for training the mind to work with the challenges of everyday living. It teaches our hearts to soften, reframes our attitude toward difficulty, and allows us to discover a wellspring of inner strength....
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FYI: Subset of “Be Grateful to Everyone “
- By mlanely on 11-27-19
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This Moment Is the Perfect Teacher
- Ten Buddhist Teachings on Cultivating Inner Strength and Compassion
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-21-22
- Language: English
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Welcoming the Unwelcome
- Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Claire Foy
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall521
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Performance422
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Story418
In her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön offers a combination of wisdom, heartfelt reflections, and the signature mix of humor and insight that have made her a beloved figure to turn to during times of change....
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One of Pema's best audiobooks
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-20
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Welcoming the Unwelcome
- Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
- Narrated by: Claire Foy
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Fully Alive
- A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall166
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Performance141
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Story140
We live in difficult times. Life sometimes seems like a roiling and turbulent river threatening to drown us. Why, in the face of that, shouldn’t we cling for safety to the certainty of the shore—to our comfortably familiar patterns and habits? Because, Pema Chödrön teaches, that kind of...
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Brief
- By lo on 08-10-18
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Fully Alive
- A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-26-17
- Language: English
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Perfect Just as You Are
- Buddhist Practices on the Four Limitless Ones: Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall147
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Performance125
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Story124
According to Pema Chodrön, spiritual practice has nothing to do with “self-improvement” since, as the title of this audiobook explains, you are already perfect just as you are....
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Taped retreat lectures
- By Barb L. on 01-12-19
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Perfect Just as You Are
- Buddhist Practices on the Four Limitless Ones: Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-28-22
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of No Escape
- And the Path of Loving-Kindness
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotté
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall336
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Performance281
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Story281
It’s true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves and we can only experience real joy when we stop running from pain. The key to understanding these truisms lies in remaining open to life in all circumstances, and here Pema Chödrön shows us how....
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Narrator doesn't do Pema justice.
- By jenjen on 08-07-19
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The Wisdom of No Escape
- And the Path of Loving-Kindness
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotté
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-21-22
- Language: English
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Smile at Fear
- A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Discovering Your Radiant Self-Confidence
- By: Pema Chödrön, Carolyn Rose Gimian
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance86
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Story84
We all have fears, but when we look closely at them, we discover that behind each fear resides a basic fear of ourselves. We’re afraid to look at our habitual styles of thinking and behaving because we might not always like what we see. Ironically it is this fear of honest self-reflection...
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Pema Live
- By rally_squirrel_west on 02-27-18
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Smile at Fear
- A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Discovering Your Radiant Self-Confidence
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-26-17
- Language: English
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Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall234
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Performance191
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Story189
Why, shouldn’t we cling to the certainty of the comfortable - to our deep-seated habits and familiar ways? Because, Pema Chödrön teaches, that kind of fear-based clinging keeps us from the infinitely more powerful experience of being fully alive....
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Narrator
- By Robin J Katz on 06-06-21
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Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-01-20
- Language: English
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Awakening Compassion
- Meditation Practice for Difficult Times
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall442
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Performance245
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Story239
For more than 800 years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the practice of lojong, or mind training, to transform difficulties into insights. Lojong training is grounded in a special meditation technique and complemented by 59 written maxims—a treasury of practical wisdom that inspires everyday...
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Loved it.
- By LeperSmurf on 01-26-05
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Awakening Compassion
- Meditation Practice for Difficult Times
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-09-00
- Language: English
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No Time to Lose
- A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall196
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Performance169
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Story167
Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In No Time to Lose Pema invites listeners to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth...
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Narrator sounds like a robot
- By Laurie R Trombley on 09-02-18
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No Time to Lose
- A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-26-17
- Language: English
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A Quote by Pema Chödrön
When we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be ok. In fact, there are no promises of fruition at all. Instead, we are encouraged to simply look deeply at joy and sorrow, at laughing and crying, at hoping and fearing, at all that lives and dies. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness.
Pema Chödrön
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