Cape

“[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last