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Start Where You Are

How to Accept Yourself and Others
By Pema Chödrön
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Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön offers guidance on embracing your current life circumstances as a foundation for personal growth and compassion. The book presents Buddhist teachings and simple practices to help readers transform pain and hardships into opportunities for enlightenment and loving-kindness. Through insightful reflections, Chödrön encourages mindfulness and openness to all experiences, fostering spiritual resilience and clarity.
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This book may appeal to you if you are on a journey of personal growth and spiritual awakening. Pema Chödrön offers compassionate guidance and practical teachings that help in embracing life's challenges with an open heart. It's ideal for those interested in Buddhism and mindfulness techniques, looking to cultivate loving-kindness and inner peace.

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Start Where You Are

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.

How to accept yourself and others. A comprehensive self-improvement book for boosting your confidence and well-being

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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 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.

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Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön is praised for its clarity and depth in addressing spiritual growth. Jack Kornfield appreciates Chödrön's refreshing perspective on mindfulness. Alice Walker highlights the valuable lessons in expanding one's heart, while O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine, commends the book for its engaging approach to turning fear and suffering into joy and compassion.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780007190621

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 March 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Element Books

Edition: New edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 170g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned Tibetan meditation master. She is the author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, The Places that Scare You and the best-selling When Things Fall Apart. She is the resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners.

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