Review
“Stephen’s work restores the heart and clears the mind—it offers an opening which even death cannot close.”—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Stephen cradles your heart with tenderness and places the lamp of truth in your hand. A wise and beautiful gift to all who would live well.”—Jack Kornfield
“For each of us, Stephen Levine’s book, with its subtle beauty and honesty, offers wise and grounded lessons. For our society, obsessed with a wide-ranging struggle against mortality, this remarkable book steers 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
“Stephen Levine offers us a profound guide for savoring life.”—Daniel Goleman
“Stephen Levine has written what may be the ultimate how-to book.”—NAPRA Review
From the Inside Flap
spiritual teacher Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying dealt with how to use the consciousness of our mortality to live a better life. Now the author of the perennial bestseller Who Dies? tells us how to live mindfully each moment, each hour, each day as if it were all that was left.
From the Back Cover
ook, 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 h
About the Author
Stephen Levine is a meditation teacher and the author of many well-loved books, including the perennial bestseller Who Dies? (over 300,000 copies in print), A Gradual Awakening; Healing into Life and Death; and A Year to Live. He is also the coauthor, with his wife, Ondrea, of Embracing the Beloved.
Stephen Levine, teacher and spiritual mentor, has worked closely with the dying. In doing so, he discovered how full life becomes when death is certain. Levine mesmerizes the listener as he reveals how the quest for fulfillment surpasses all other desires and inevitably satisfies the soul for the remaining days of life. Hypnotic and soothing, Levine's words penetrate the listener's curiosity about dying and arouse interest in his or her own mortality. Levine provides a month-by-month procedural format anyone can follow to live a more meaningful existence. He convincingly promotes living as if there really were only one year remaining--eliminating dead-end jobs, loving with gusto and doing things never done before. Levine vows that quality of life will improve immensely. B.J.P. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
