There is a Native American saying, "Today is a good day to die for all the things of my life are present." This embodies the possibilities of a life reviewed and completed. A life in which even death is not excluded. I am speaking here of a whole death that succeeds a whole life. A life caught up to, and lived in, the present, that rides the breath and knows the power of thought to create the world, experiencing itself in its fullness and emptiness.
— Stephen Levine, A Year to Live