In this landmark guide to the spiritual journey, respected Zen teacher and psychotherapist John Tarrant brings together ancient Eastern traditions and the Western passion for the soul. Using real-life stories, Zen tales, and Greek myths, The Light Inside the Dark shows how our darkest experiences can be the gates to wisdom and joy. Tarrant leads us through the inevitable descents of our journey--from the everyday world of work and family into the treasure cave of the interior life--from which we return with greater love of life's vivid, common gifts. Written with empathy and a poet's skill, The Light Inside the Dark is the freshest and most challenging work on the soul to he published in years.

LIGHT INSIDE DARK

Health, Fitness & Dieting

John Tarrant

Alternative Medicine

Perennial

The Clauberg Trigger

Clive Egleton

Literature & Fiction

Dorchester Pub Co

The Clauberg trigger

Atheneum

How do leading organizations win constant media attention, keep company confidence high, and attract valuable new business and top-flight employees? How do public figures and politicians capture the media spotlight and stay in the public eye? And how do successful entrepreneurs and professionals move their businesses and careers in to the fast track? By understanding and capitalizing on that most powerful yet most under-used weapon in the corporate and marketing armory - public relations. Power Public Relations introduces the new PR. No longer a prop to marketing or corporate communications, public relations has become a powerful and pervasive discipline. This book covers the spectrum of PR strategies, showing how they can be used to aggressively engineer public perceptions on corporate, political, legal, and social fronts. In the business world, PR expert Len Saffir introduces PR as an equal partner with marketing in the promotion of products and services, predicting that "sell shops" - integrating PR with advertising and promotion - will soon replace traditional ad agencies. Case histories, such as the marketing of cigarettes in a hostile environment and the effective promotion of controversial causes, demonstrate that this is the wave of the future. In the management of crisis - disasters involving defective products, on-site accidents, or accusations of unethical corporate conduct - this book explains how to use preemptive public relations to develop action plans to contain damage in crisis situations, work with the media, and regain public support. In the political and legal arenas, Power Public Relations explains how well-chosen PR strategies can ally public figures with popularcauses or concerns, turn public opinion, and win lawsuits, proxy battles, and personal advancement. Complete with hands-on advice on working with the media, capturing public interest, and building and evaluating a successful public relations program, Power Public Relations will op

Power Public Relations: How to Get Pr to Work for You

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company

Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells fourteen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time. “Here’s a book to crack the happiness code if ever there was one. Forget about self-improvement, five-point plans, and inspirational seminars that you can’t remember a word of a week later. Tarrant’s is the fix that fixes nothing because there is nothing to fix. Your life is a koan, a deep question whose answer you are already living—this is the true inspiration, and Tarrant delivers.”—Roger Housden, author of the Ten Poems series “Every life is full of koans, and yet you can’t learn from a book how to understand them. You need someone to put you in the right frame of mind to see the puzzles and paradoxes of your experience. With intelligence, humor, and steady, deep reflection, John Tarrant does this as no one has done it before. This book could take you to a different and important level of experience.”—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Dark Nights of the Soul “Bring Me the Rhinoceros is one of the best books ever written about Zen. But it is more than that: it is a book of Zen, pointing us to reality by its own fluent and witty example. John Tarrant has the rare ability to enter the minds of the ancient Zen masters as they do their amazing pirouettes upon the void and, with a few vivid touches, to illuminate our lives with their sayings.”—Stephen Mitchell, author of Gilgamesh: A New English Version “This book’s straightforward honesty, clear writing, and destabilizing insight have a profound effect. John Tarrant does indeed bring on the rhinoceros and a host of other powerful but invisible creatures, ready to run us down when we refuse to acknowledge the fierce, awkward, and beautiful world we inhabit”—David Whyte, author of Crossing the Unknown Sea “John Tarrant’s talent for telling these classic Zen tales transforms them magically into a song in which, as you read, the words disappear as the music continues to echo in your mind and make you happy. Mysteriously, like koans.” —Sylvia Boorstein, author of Pay Attention, for Goodness’ Sake

Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy

Self-Help

Harmony

Stu Williamson's Concept to Print: The Making of 20 Portrait Images (Creative Photography Workshop)

Arts & Photography

Stu Williamson

Photography & Video

Argentum

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