A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
by Stephen Levine
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Author: Stephen LevineEdition: Paperback
Published: 1998-04-14
ISBN: 0609801945
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower
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Book Review: If every moment is precious, you're wasting precious time with this book
Summary: 1 Stars
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.
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.
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?
This book answers none of life's practical questions and provides even less answers on death.
Summary of A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
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 Who Dies?) 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."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.
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