| I just read Eugene O'Kelly's Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life. O'Kelly was the U.S. head of KPMG, one of the Big 4 accounting firms. In May 2005, at the age of 53, he was told he had incurable brain cancer and three to six months to live. He died just over three months later. His book describes those last 100 days. It's inspirational as a guide to dying. It's more compelling as a guide to living, which is what he intended. Not surprisingly, at least not to me after a lot of years studying and working on my own presence, O'Kelly concludes that immersion in and appreciation of the present moment is the key to a more balanced, meaningful, and contented life. This is a great follow-up to Ekhart Tolle's Power of Now. Tolle describes all the philosophical dimensions of presence, and O'Kelly drives it home with a poignant, intimate real-life account that can't help but inspire us to seek what he calls "Perfect Moments", one after the other, forever. |
