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

Levine, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609801945 ISBN 13: 9780609801949

Publisher: Harmony/Rodale, 1920

Synopsis

In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller "Who Dies?, " teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. 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.

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‘Stephen Levine offers us a profound guide for savouring life.’
Daniel Goleman

‘Few books are worthy to be life-long companions – this is one of them.’
Thomas Moore

From the Back Cover

IF YOU HAD ONLY A YEAR TO LIVE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY?

This question is at the heart of Stephen Levine’s beautiful, transformative book. After working with terminally ill patients for twenty years, Levine was led to examine what it would mean to live a life without regrets. He embarked on a one-year experiment in conscious living, living each day as if it were his last. Drawing on his experience as well as on numerous interviews with the terminally ill, Levine has developed a programme to help readers learn to live as never before. This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to lead a more meaningful life.

Levine, the author of 'Who Dies?' teaches how to deal with unfinished business, re-examine priorities and enter into a vibrant new relationship with life through a year-long programme of strategies and guided meditations. He writes: ‘Why wait for a terminal diagnosis before opening to the potential grace and wonder of this living moment. None of us can afford to put this work off any longer because almost no one knows the day on which the last year begins.’

‘Stephen Levine offers us a profound guide for savouring life.’
DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of 'Emotional Intelligence'

‘For each of us, Stephen Levine’s book, with its subtle beauty and honesty, offers wise and grounded lessons. For our society, obsessed book could steer us toward an earthiness and humility necessary for a full life. Few books are worthy to be lifelong companions – this is one of them.’
THOMAS MOORE, author of 'Care of the Soul'

About this edition

• Publisher: Harmony/Rodale
• Publication date: 1920
• ISBN 10: 0609801945
• ISBN 13: 9780609801949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194