'Start Where You Are' is a helpful handbook for cultivating fearlessness
and awakening a compassionate heart, from 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.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', 'Always meditate on whatever provokes
resentment' 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,
well-being and confidence.
