A review by jwinchell
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chödrön

4.0

This is another book I will likely return to again and again. This time around, what I needed to read is: "The more we make friends with ourselves, the more we can see that our ways of shutting down and closing off are rooted in the mistaken thinking that the way to get happy is to blame somebody else." And: "The notion of aspiration is simply that you voice your wishes for enlightenment. You say to yourself, for yourself, about yourself, and by yourself things like, 'May my compassion for myself increase.'"