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A Year to Live

By: Stephen Levine
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If you only had a year to live, what would you do? In his work with the dying, author Stephen Levine observed the radical changes people can make in the face of death - how they heal relationships, open up to love, act on plans put off for years, even quit dead-end jobs. Levine challenged himself to live an entire year as if it were his last - and in this revealing narrative he shares what he learned. Through a series of month-by-month practices anyone can do, and including special meditations and exercises, A Year to Live teaches a way to live every day of your life with vivid fullness.©1997 Stephen Levine (P)1997 Stephen Levine Grief & Loss Personal Development Personal Success
Insightful Wisdom • Eloquent Writing • Powerful Voice • Thought-provoking Concepts • Spiritual Guidance
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I feel like I understand now...the meaning of this lifetime is simply to prepare to die. It begins when it ends.

Love the Concept

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I have not been with many dying people. The ones that have been with, didn’t go well, they were filled with terror in their eyes and a feeling of annihilation. Seeing that has left me with a deep fear of those last moments, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years.

Levine claims that it is our life that we fear as much as it is our death. That in the lack of grieving our hearts harden and we are cut off from life and we project that what comes after bears that same feeling towards us.

I am surprised I had not heard of Levine sooner.

Packed full of the wisdom that comes from being present with much death.

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This a meditation on life. I found it most rewarding to listen while resting. I look forward to listening again as it it rich and I am certain I will more each time.

Quiet Listen

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I very much enjoyed this book. I listened to it as I turned 60 years old and got a lot out of the content of dying and living life in a different way

However...I truly wish someone else had read the book. I’m sorry, Mr Levine, but your creepy, Grim Reaper voice was not enjoyable at all. Please have someone else read your books from now on!!

Loved the content...not the narrative

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Record their own books! He read the entire book as if he was reading poetry and unfortunately it was very distracting!!!!!! I didn’t get much direction from listening because of the delivery from the author but I couldn’t listen again for anything! Too bad....

Authors should almost never...

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We will all die. The sooner we embrace that fact, the sooner we will live our lives more fully. This book will gently prepare you for that process.

A must read for anyone who will die

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Essentially, this book reads as a multi-part poem. Depending on your sensibility, this could be a positive or a negative. It's less of a how-to and more of a work of contemplative art. Whether you enjoy Stephen Levine's writing style, the book will for sure get you thinking about how you approach your life, how you define success, and your relationship to the concept of control.

Poetic

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Stephen and Ondrea Levine are magical. Everything they write is full of wisdom, insight, mercy, and soft sweet love. By investigating death, we come alive!

It’s all Grace

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When I started the book, I waited with baited breathe for the author to launch into the specifics of living for a year like I was dying. But that was the disappointment of a lifetime. The author with his powerful voice of wisdom declined to get into specifics like I needed to hear. Maybe he wrote the book for people unlike myself, who like to be shown the how, when, and why. Maybe I'll write the book, and find out why the specifics were not called for after all.

Not All I thought I was getting

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There is nothing in this book that you already don’t know. It is not an easy listen specially if English is your second language.

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