Tibetan buddhist teacher  Pema Chodron offers some very useful wisdom about living a spiritual path,  and guidance for navigating through rough passages and avoiding pitfalls.

a young Diedre Blomfield Brown

Pema Chodron

Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown on July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, acharya and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chodron has written several books and is the director of the Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada.