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A Year To Live
On New Years Eve in 1994, author Steven Levine and his wife, Ondrea, vowed to live the next year as if it were their last. ...
Lets say you are told you have only one year left. And you write down all the reasons why you want to live. ... One reason you may want to live is because youd like to see the 40,000 starving children fed. ... And this is why a year to live practice can be so significant. ... If you knew you had only a year to live, your priorities would straighten out. ... If you’ve got cancer, you may worry that this "year to live" process will make your cancer metastasize. ... Therefore, when people actually do this "year to live" practice, they dont leave their job and go to Acapulco with a bottle of tequila. ... 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. ... Whether you believe you will live again in another body, with another personality and history and so on, or that your life will continue in one or another of the heavens or hells described by various religions, or that when you die, thats it -- whatever you believe about what happens next -- death itself is relatively simple. ...
The year to live exercise is one from which we can all benefit. ... It is recommended by Levine that one who undertakes the year to live to make a list of priorities and then to set a schedule to accomplish them. ...
Bibliography
Meetings at the Edge, by Steven Levine
A Year To Live, by Steven Levine
Grist For The Mill, by Ram Dass
Approximate Word count = 2092
Approximate Pages = 8.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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