Stephen Levine: How Soon Will We Accept This Opportunity?

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, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive....
 
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die?
 

― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last