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title: "The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life"
brand: "john tarrant"
price: "A$28"
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reviews_count: 13
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# The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life

**Brand:** john tarrant
**Price:** A$28
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- **What is this?** The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life by john tarrant
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The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    How to gracefully ride the inevitable ups and downs of life.
  

*by D***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2023*

This is a book everyone should read. John takes the reader through a masterclass of self awareness, helping us understand there is value in every stage of life, and a life spent only in the sun of spiritual high is a fantasy and an unrealistic way to life a life that is anywhere near enjoyable.Just like the plants and animals accept and adjust to the change of seasons, so too should humans accept and adjust to the seasons of our emotions, successes, failures, and triumphs - knowing each is ephemeral and has something to teach us as we seek wisdom and grace in an every uncertain and serendipitous world.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Deeply satisfying
  

*by M***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2016*

Fierce, yet compassionate. Honest about life and not making it more beautiful than it is, the author convinces the reader that life has to be embraced and loved,loved through in all its aspects. That we we develop "negative capacity", equanimity in the face of great adversity, even loving the dark aspects of our existence.The language is poetic and literary, the deeper meaning of the myths and stories that lie at the foundations of our civilization are brought into our consciousness - the difficulties of life, impossible situations, are to be lived with by us like the immortals suffered through them. The stories and philosophy of Asia, although less exuberant, are equally wondrous and eye-opening.  A very satisfying book, to be read and read again. It has been a good companion to me in rough times. I will always treasure it and read it over and over again.  Every sentence contains so much meaning, that it will take a lifetime to digest this rich fare. Sometimes I even wish for the darkness to return, just so that I may reconnect with the contents of this book.

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    A beautiful, evocative book
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 1999*

The Light Inside the Dark is an astonishing book. It should be read with patience and an open ,ready mind, or perhaps not at all. Like a poem, it is not an attempt to explain, or argue, or discuss, but to evoke. In a rich  mixture of images, metaphors, myths, and stories, it probes every crack and  crevice of the psyche, looking for enough purchase so that it may break  open a gaping hole-- not so that it may swoop in, but that it might  liberate a torrent of emotion and insight trapped within. Perhaps its most  important service is to show by example, rather plead by treatise, that the  solution to our suffering lies not in running away or building all manner  of psychic and material fortresses, but in plunging into the darkness and  learning that we have the strength to survive, and even to flourish. I am  thankful for this gift.

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