Shambhala, Boston, 2002, reprint.  ISBN 978-1-57062-921-1.  Trade soft cover, 140 pages including Appendix, Bibliography, and Resources, followed by ads.  Good plus; light edge and cover wear, tight binding, score on rear wrap from near top spine edge to mid spine edge.  Small spot on REP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  ‘We always have a choice, Pema Chodron 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 books (sic) 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.’ (from rear wrap)