Book One · Softcover & Hardcover
Choose the edition you want to hold, mark, display, and return to each Diwali.
Light Up The Darkness: A Fluorescent Awakening is available in two physical formats: a portable softcover for reflective everyday reading and a substantial case-laminate hardcover for keeping, gifting, and repeated yearly return.
Both print editions contain the complete six-day contemplative journey through remembrance, inner light, love, and carrying illumination through the year.
By
T.P. Blakewell
Published by Follow The Symbol
Publishing
A Book Designed to Be Revisited
This is not a book intended only for one quick reading. Its six-day Diwali rhythm invites readers to pause, write, mark passages, revisit questions, and return in later years with a changed life and a deeper capacity to see.
A physical copy can remain near a reading chair, prayer space, bedside table, family shelf, or place where Diwali is observed. The act of taking it down again becomes part of remembrance.
Both editions contain the complete Book One journey. The choice is primarily about portability, durability, presentation, and how you expect to use the book over time.
Choose Your Print Edition
Both print editions are available now and can be purchased directly from Follow The Symbol Publishing through this website.
A portable perfect-bound edition for personal reading, margin notes, book clubs, travel, and returning throughout the year.
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A substantial keeping edition for a personal library, gifting, display, group reading, and dependable return across many Diwali seasons.
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Included in Both Editions
The softcover and hardcover differ in binding and page layout—not in the heart of the book.
Create inward space for stillness, remembrance, and a more honest quality of attention.
Notice the habits, noise, fear, resentment, and distraction that interfere with truthful seeing.
Move from clearing toward receiving clarity, conscience, wisdom, presence, and love.
Recognize the practices, relationships, truths, and forms of care that help the light remain.
Carry illumination into listening, honesty, courage, repair, protection, and relationship.
Turn a festival-centered reflection into a continuing practice of remembrance and return.
Edition Comparison
| Feature | Softcover | Hardcover |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $34.99 |
| Binding | Perfect-bound paperback | Case-laminate hardback |
| Trim size | 5.5 × 8.5 inches | 5.5 × 8.5 inches |
| Interior | Black-and-white on creme paper | Black-and-white on creme paper |
| Page count | 201-page interior | 201-page interior |
| Cover finish | Matte | Matte |
| Best suited for | Portable reading, notes, travel, groups | Keeping, gifting, display, repeated return |
| ISBN | 979-8-2409-3440-7 | 979-8-2409-3650-0 |
| Direct purchase | Follow The Symbol Publishing website | Follow The Symbol Publishing website |
Both editions contain the complete second-edition text. Both print editions use the same 201-page interior. Both are 5.5 × 8.5 inches with a black-and-white interior on crème paper. . The principal differences are binding, page layout, durability, presentation, and price.
Which Edition Should I Choose?
Choose the Softcover
The softcover is the best fit for carrying between rooms or locations, writing beside the text, reading with a group, and purchasing the physical book at the lower price.
Choose the Hardcover
The hardcover is the stronger choice for a personal library, a meaningful gift, annual Diwali display, shared household use, or a copy intended to remain through many years of return.
A Meaningful Gift
More Than a Single-Season Purchase
A gift becomes more meaningful when it does not demand a particular belief or immediate transformation. This book invites the reader to slow down, consider what has become obscured, and return to what remains luminous.
The hardcover offers the strongest presentation for gifting, while the softcover makes it easier to give copies to multiple readers or use the book within a group.
Recipients can begin with the free preview before deciding which physical edition best fits their reading life.
How to Read the Print Edition
Choose a chair, table, lamp, or quiet corner where the book can remain visible and available during the six-day rhythm.
Move through one day at a time, allowing the reflection questions, practices, prayers, and closing passages to breathe.
Mark passages, date your notes, or keep a journal so that future returns reveal how the reader and the year have changed.
The Ebook
The $9.99 ebook includes both EPUB and PDF files in one purchase, with automatic digital delivery after checkout. Use the EPUB on compatible ereaders and reading apps, or the PDF on compatible phones, tablets, and computers.
Readers may choose the ebook alone, a print edition alone, or use digital and physical formats together.
Read Before You Purchase
Encounter the voice, pace, structure, and contemplative approach of Book One before choosing the ebook, softcover, or hardcover edition.
Continue Exploring
Read the complete book description, six-day path, reader benefits, and place of Book One within the trilogy.
Free PreviewExperience the book’s voice and contemplative rhythm before purchasing any edition.
Reading GuideFollow the complete six-day movement with practical guidance for personal, family, or group reading.
Complete SeriesSee how Book One remembers the light, Book Two tends the fire, and Book Three opens toward a larger world.
Choose the Copy You Will Return To
Select the edition that fits how you want to read, mark, share, display, and return through the years.
Frequently Asked Questions
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