We always have an option, Pema Chödrön teaches: We are able to let the circumstances of our lives harden us and help to make us increasingly resentful and scared, or we are able to permit them soften us and make us kinder. Right here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and issues that life throws our way. This wisdom is usually always open to us, she teaches, but we generally stop it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This audiobook shows us how to awaken our simple goodness and connect to others, to simply accept ourselves while others filled with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present minute by viewing through the strategies of ego that trigger us to withstand life as it is.