Start Where You Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others

by Pema Choedroen

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Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart, from bestselling author Pema Chodron. With insight and humour, she presents down-to-earth guidance on how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine compassion towards others.

This book shows how we can 'start where we are' by embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chodron frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: 'Always apply a joyful state of mind' and 'Be grateful to everyone'. Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation, Start Where You Are shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our own inner pain and discover joy, wellbeing and confidence.

  • ISBN13 9780007386116
  • Publish Date 2 August 2012 (first published 7 March 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Element Books Ltd
  • Imprint Element Books