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

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.

• Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
• A Gradual Awakening
• Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
• Becoming Kuan Yin: The Evolution of Compassion
• Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart
• The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
• Dharma Punx
• How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives
• Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings
• Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed