Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness
and awakening a compassionate heart, from bestselling author Pema Chödrön. 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 Chödrön 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