I am asking the ancient question: What does it really mean to be alive? I listen to my friends-teachers-patients as they wrestle with the death that is in them and try to claim more of the life that is also within them. And, of course, I don’t come up with TheAnswer. Yet slowly I come to realize how all of us if we will but really look and listen~can sense the life pulsing within. We can tell when it is beating more strongly and when it grows fainteven though none of us can really define in proper academic fashion just what that deep intuition is. What we can do, though, is to recognize,by our own inner awareness, how we can experience our own beings in changed ways.