A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

Stephen Levine

Paperback, 192 pages

9780609801949

This book provides a year-long program of practical strategies and guided meditations to help with the work of entering into a new relationship with both life and death.

On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live this way himself for a whole year, and now he shares with us how such immediacy radically changes our view of the world and forces us to examine our priorities. Most of us go to extraordinary lengths to ignore, laugh off, or deny the fact that we are going to die, but preparing for death is one of the most rational and rewarding acts of a lifetime. It is an exercise that gives us the opportunity to deal with unfinished business and enter into a new and vibrant relationship with life. Levine provides us with a year-long program of intensely practical strategies and powerful guided meditations to help with this work, so that whenever the ultimate moment does arrive for each of us, we will not feel that it has come too soon.

Selected Contents (5/39):

1. Catching Up with Your Life

2. Practice Dying

3. Preparing to Die

4. Dying from the Common Cold

5. Renewing the Evolution