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# Start Where You Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others

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## Description

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.

Review: Five Stars - Great. The message given in the book is for ever and timeless.
Review: Valuable and encouraging - Ani Pema is at her compassionate best

## Features

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #56,526 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #103 in Buddhism #184 in Self-Help for Stress Management #216 in Hinduism |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 156 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by M***A on 5 July 2018*

Great. The message given in the book is for ever and timeless.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Valuable and encouraging
*by R***H on 17 June 2025*

Ani Pema is at her compassionate best

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Life changing wisdom.
*by S***N on 21 August 2013*

I didnt find Pema for a while after I started practicing Buddhism but since I have my life and practice have totally transformed. What makes Pema's teachings in this book and others so profound is that she doesnt tell you to get rid of anything. Unlike a lot of Buddhism that can often describe practice as removing or fixing things within yourself, Shambhala Buddhism (which is taught in this book) starts and finishes with you being perfect just as you are. There is nothing to change. Hence the title "Start Where You are". Her teaching is about connecting with the tenderness beneath all of the suffering, justification and confusion. The tenderness of the heart is something that we all share, without exception. This is why this book will change your life. I would recommend it to everyone but especially those who seem to struggle with self-doubt or self aversion. I find all Buddhism is basically the same underneath its just some types suit different types of minds.

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