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Pema Chödrön

Start Where You Are: A Guide To Compassionate Living

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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.
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188 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Dina Kaidirshared an impression7 years ago
    🚀Unputdownable

    If i had to sum up this book in a sentence, it would read: 'Breathe it all in and love it all out.'

Quotes

  • Dina Kaidirhas quoted7 years ago
    The path includes all experience, both serene and chaotic.
  • Anette Højer Jensenhas quoted2 years ago
    Right in the pain there’s a lot of room, a lot of openness.
  • Anette Højer Jensenhas quoted2 years ago
    If you’re in a jealous rage and it occurs to you to actually breathe it in rather than blame it on someone else – if you get in touch with the arrow in your heart – it’s quite accessible to you at that very moment that there are people all over the world feeling exactly what you’re feeling.

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