A Book About Living by Ira Byock, M.D.

Please forgive me. I forgive you. Thank you. I love you. 

These four simple statements are powerful tools for improving your relationships and your life.  Even as people confront death (their own or others’), they can reach out to express love, gratitude, and forgiveness. When they do, they consistently find that they, and everyone involved, are transformed.

I have come to understand viscerally that we live every moment on the brink. We are, each one of us, at every moment, a heartbeat away from death. Seen against the backdrop of our certain mortality, our differences are dwarfed by our commonality – and the importance we hold for one another.