This book is about saying yes to life, about making friends with ourselves and our world, about accepting the delightful and painful situation of "no-exit." It exhorts us to wake up wholeheartedly to everything and to use the abundant richly textured fabric of everyday life as our primary spiritual teacher and guide. Pema Ch?dr?n was the first American woman to be ordained as a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She is now the Director of Gampo Abbey, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for westerners.