Half a century after Albert Camus asserted that “there is no love of life without despair of life,” Chödrön reframes those moments of acute despair as opportunities for befriending life by befriending ourselves in the deepest sense. In When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times ( public library), she draws on her own confrontation with personal crisis and on the ancient teachings of Tibetan Buddhism to offer gentle and incisive guidance to the enormity we stand to gain during those times when all seems to be lost. “In art,” Kafka assured his teenage walking companion, “one must throw one’s life away in order to gain it.” As in art, so in life - so suggests the American Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Pema Chödrön. In every life, there comes a time when we are razed to the bone of our resilience by losses beyond our control - lacerations of the heart that feel barely bearable, that leave us bereft of solid ground.
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