A year to live: how to live this year as if it were your last

Stephen Levine

Bell Tower, Apr 14, 1998 - Family & Relationships - 192 pages

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.

What people are saying

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

User Review  - Sara - Goodreads

This book just didn't do it for me. Too dry and impersonal in style. Certainly, Stephen has wisdom to share, but this piece of writing was not the inspiration I sought.

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

User Review  - Cassidy - Goodreads

Bleh. I found the author to be SOOOOOO high and mighty. Plus it was quite repetitive. Not for me.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Catching Up with Your Life: 3
• Practice Dying: 8

About the author

STEPHEN LEVINE 's many bestselling books include A Gradual Awakening and Who Dies? His renowned work in grief counseling has been featured in television programs on PBS and CNN, in radio segments, and in magazine articles. He lives in Chamisal, New Mexico.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A year to live: how to live this year as if it were your last
• Author: Stephen Levine
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Bell Tower, 1998
• ISBN: 0609801945, 9780609801949
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Death; Death - Psychological aspects; Death/ Psychological aspects; Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Family & Relationships / General; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Religion / Spirituality; Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Self-Help / General; Self-Help / Meditations; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General; Self-actualization (Psychology); Social Science / Death & Dying; Spiritual life; Terminally ill; Terminally ill - Psychology