When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

Pema Chödron

from the book Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

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Further quotes from the book Start Where You Are:

• The happiness we seek is already here
• Teachings 24/7
• Communication without agenda
• Compassion along the path
• Moving away from comfort and security
• Self-liberate even the antidote
• Underneath there’s something extremely soft
• You are guaranteed to be burned
• Where Do Thoughts Come From
• Learning from everything
• Gloriousness and wretchedness