A Year to Live

How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

By: Stephen Levine

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Paperback | 14 April 1998

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"Stephen Levine has worked creatively to help thousands of people approach their own deaths with equanimity, truth, and an open heart. I can think of no one better qualified to help us enrich our lives through embracing the mystery of death."--Ram Dass

"A Year to Live is a poetic and deeply passionate exploration into what creates human suffering. It is also a lyrical and generous-spirited guide to life."--San Francisco Examiner

In A Year to Live, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial bestseller 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 our grief over 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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Introduction	p. 1
Catching Up with Your Life	p. 3
Practice Dying	p. 8
Preparing to Die	p. 14
Dying from the Common Cold	p. 18
Renewing Evolution	p. 21
Famous Last Words	p. 26
Fear of Fear	p. 29
Noticing	p. 34
A Commitment to Life	p. 39
Fear of Dying	p. 45
Fear of Death	p. 51
The Moment of Death	p. 56
The Act of Dying	p. 59
Dying Contemplation	p. 61
Jennifer	p. 67
Life Review	p. 69
Forgiveness	p. 88
Gratitude	p. 93
Keeping a Journal	p. 98
Altaring Your Life	p. 100
Living in the Body	p. 103
With Death Just over My Shoulder	p. 106
Letting Go of Control	p. 108
July	p. 110
Tom	p. 112
Who Dies?	p. 114
Original Face	p. 118
After-Death Experiences	p. 122
Beyond the House of Death	p. 127
Return Appearances	p. 129
Reincarnation	p. 131
Peter and Tim	p. 137
Disposing of the Corpse	p. 140
Finding the Lotus Before Winter	p. 146
Armando and the Floating World	p. 151
A Good Day to Die	p. 154
Name That Tune	p. 156
Aging	p. 159
December	p. 161
Epilogue	p. 167
Group Practice	p. 169
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