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

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Author: Stephen Levine
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7

ISBN: 0609801945
Dewey Decimal Number: 170.44
UPC: 045863801944
EAN: 9780609801949
ASIN: 0609801945

Publication Date: April 14, 1998
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
Socrates believed that we should "always be occupied in the practice of dying" in order to appreciate our living. So imagine that you only have one year left to live. What would you do differently? For one year Stephen Levine (also the author of iWho Dies/i?) consciously chose activities, relationships, and spiritual practices that reflected life's urgency rather than life's complacency. From his experience comes this year-long program of strategies and guided meditations to help us feel satiated when our numbers come up. Lessons include "Gratitude," "Disposing of the Corpse," "Finding the Lotus Before Winter," and "Beyond the House of Death."

Product Description
In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller iWho Dies?,/i 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 brtoo soon.

Book Description
In his work with the dying, Levine observed the radical life changes people can make in the face of death. He challenged himself to live an entire year as if it were his last, thus beginning an investigation into spiritual practices unlike any other: those designed to explore how death is cut from the same fabric as life, and why it is never to be feared. Carefully planned as a series of month-by-month practices and meditations, this audiobook brings the dying process into the full light of awareness.

Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful thoughts September 6, 2008
Stephen Levine has the great talent, to evoke love and compassion with his words. Many people talk about these themes, but very few can make people feel it in one's own heart and start practising it - at least as good as one can.br /AND this book is also very helpful in dealing with the fear of death and dying, that is in some times more present than in others, but always there in many of us.

1 out of 5 stars

If every moment is precious, you're wasting precious time with this book December 13, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

I bought this book cheaply and paid more for the shipping and handling than for the book. Now I know why. I read through the first several chapters - each chapter is only a couple pages long - and then flipped to the back of the book to see if the book was going anywhere. Sadly, nothing had changed in the end.br /br /This book is zen poetry. Levine is a good writer with many flowery images and metaphors for dying but after awhile he says nothing. Perhaps I should read his book in order to learn the patience needed to read his book. If i had six months to live, I wouldn't spend my time reading this book. It has nothing new to say, just a recycle of zen techniques.br /br /I expected this book to be a practical guide to settling our affairs in the final year of life. How do we prepare ourselves financially or pay off debt? How do we budget our time in accomplishing unfulfilled tasks? How do we clean up all of our material goods?br /br /This book answers none of life's practical questions and provides even less answers on death.

1 out of 5 stars

A Year to Live August 17, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I felt that since Stephen didn't really have just a year to live, there was something missing here. It seemed to me more of a review of his Yoga presentations.Perhaps he is very laid back, but I think any one knowing they had only one year to live would have done more with his life than just sit back and think how wonderful things were. I'm sorry, but I never got the feeling he was reaching the end.

4 out of 5 stars

It's all about living... January 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

A perspective on life as a gift to be enjoyed, shared and appreciated before we proceed to our next phase of existance, "A Year To Live" offers loving companionship and strength to living our experience here in grateful joy.

4 out of 5 stars

HOW TO LIVE EACH MOMENT LIKE YOUR LAST August 25, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Yes, in this book the author Stephen Levine shows us how to live each moment like our last-- and no it's not depressing...Stephen really lived like this for a year so it's fascinating to see his take on this philosophy. I often use this in making a major decision-- if this was my last year would I? And even in minor decisions that are bothering me -- should I do this today? I love the titles of his chapters including "ALTARING YOUR LIFE"...plus he offers meditations and a year-long plan... I did not get into that stuff-- which some people may feel is too new age...but I did enjoy the philosophy of this book...I keep it on my bookshelf in a special place for days that are really tough or nights that seem like they will never end :))

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