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A review by em_ham
Start Where You Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others by Pema Chödrön
4.0
There's so much in this book; I'd probably do well to reread it once in a while for the rest of my life. The choices Pema Chödrön describes around how to react to people, events and thoughts seem impossible to make - we're so stuck in automatic, reactive mode. This book made me realise what a valuable use of time meditation is...
I'm not very knowledgeable about Buddhism and actually put this book down halfway through before restarting it over a year later. Sometimes the concepts felt pretty alien and complicated, but now I'm glad I learnt about them, and from a writer with such a warm, humorous voice. Still, I'd recommend Start Where You Are to people who have already learnt how to meditate and have some basic awareness of Buddhist ideas.
I'm not very knowledgeable about Buddhism and actually put this book down halfway through before restarting it over a year later. Sometimes the concepts felt pretty alien and complicated, but now I'm glad I learnt about them, and from a writer with such a warm, humorous voice. Still, I'd recommend Start Where You Are to people who have already learnt how to meditate and have some basic awareness of Buddhist ideas.