If there is one thing that the Covid 19 •Pandemic has taught us, it is how to deal with being alone. Quarantine and Social Distancing, while keeping us away from each other,has forced us to confront that person we normally have the least time for. Which is our own Self. The Self that we have neglected and ignored during our busy lives interacting with the outside world, but which many of us could no longer avoid as we spend more time at home and shy away from public places. We can however, ...

Compassion is a seasonal anthology created by Comma Books that works in-joint with various local nonprofit organizations. In the first volume of Compassion, we have collaborated with Lingkar, a youth initiative movement that focuses on youth mental health awareness. We have gathered fourteen writers to explore the concept of home – what it means, where it dwells, and how it formed them. ...

Grateful confessions with heartwarming illustrations that bring you joy and enlighten your soul. A journal of gratitude towards life, love, and other things around us that we often take for granted--we hope this book can elevate your mood, spreading positive energy around... because we believe that gratitude is contagious! ...

THIS IS THE BOOK ABOUT AN AVERAGE KID WHO TURNED INTO A CREATIVE FIGURE IN HIS COUNTRY AND LATER ON EVEN WON AN INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE AWARD IN LONDON. Yoris Sebastian was appointed as General Manager of Hard Rock Café Jakarta at the age of 26 mainly because of his creativity at any given role. READ THIS BOOK IF YOU WANT TO know WHY YORIS DIDN’T AGREE WITH THESE FOLLOWING CREATIVE WISDOM:  ...

“ e most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” -Albert Einstein- Life is a Mystery, and we human beings are as mysterious as this very existence is. As such, any attempt to demystify life or existence is bound to fail. It must fail.  ...

“Given the basic thrust of Yoga as practice, not belief, it has served as a bridge between cultures and diverse religious forms for millennia. By emphasizing spiritual practice and remaining mute on disputations of theological issues, Yoga has emerged through the centuries not only with eff ective methods for spiritual practice but also with an adaptability that accords well in multicultural contexts.” - Christopher Key Chapple, Author & Yoga Practitioner “Anand Ashram ...

If there's one thing we're good at, is making our lives complicated. We fill it with expectations, anxieties and fears. We fret about the past, we worry about the future, we ignore the present. We seek fulfillment in material things and happiness in wishful thinking, often at the expense of the riches that already surround us. A Simple Life is a collection of musings, observations and thoughts that Desi Anwar gathers from her experience, childhood recollections and perspectives, as ...

This illustrated book is about the author`s daily thoughts on her love and life experience. Uplifting, motivating, this book is essential to your daily #Whatsinsidemybag, so you will always feel inspired. Expect lots of good energy and beautiful illustrations inside this book. ...

Otto Cornelis Kaligis, a man whom Anand Krishna calls "the law icon", is appreciative to Anand's effort in writing this impressive work, which is based on O.C. Kaligis' life-story, A Man with Million Surprises. It is Kaligis' success as a man of spirit and his honorable personality that deeply impressed Anand and urged him to sublimate Kaligis' views and ideals in his writing and to share them here with us. O.C. Kaligis' is a voice in the wilderness. Amidst the ...

Have you heard of Hermès? What about Birkin and Kelly bags? What’s that? Oh, you’re a super freak fan?? You bought a separate house just to store your Birkin and Kelly bags collections? Excellent. This book is for you. Come along on a journey with a couple of Birkin and Kelly bags re-sellers into the mystical world of Hermès; the crack for the high society, the heroin for the exclusive. Read the swashbuckling duo’s adventures and struggles as they ...

"Alif had never set foot outside of West Sumatra. He passed his childhood days searching for fallen durian fruit in the jungle, playing soccer on rice paddies, and swimming in the blue waters of Lake Maninjau. His mother wants him to attend an Islamic boarding school, a pesantren, while he dreams of public high school. Halfheartedly, he follows his mother’s wishes. He finds himself on a grueling three-day bus ride from Sumatra to Madani Pesantren (MP) in a remote village on Java. On his ...

It is the story of the son of a minibus driver from Batu City who becomes a company director in New York City. My father is a minibus driver who can’t even remember his own birthday. His highest education was the eighth grade. My mother couldn’t finish her elementary school education. She is the perfect mirror for humbleness. I have four sisters and they are the strongest pillars in my life. Because we grew up poor, our toys were school textbooks; and we would work for extra money ...

World class tourism destination Bali is well-known for her natural beauty and exotic culture. But within beautiful Bali hides another type of 'beauty': the pearls of wisdom to heed and practice. Bali's indigenous wisdom is laden with philosophical and universal values and is also very relevant for addressing the global problems modern people face daily. These pearls of wisdom were born out of a thoughtful civilization that champions the simplicity of mind and respect of nature, integrating ...

"Motivational speakers weaken our soul and kill the spirit it takes to face the challenges of life. We begin to believe in outside factors to motivate us and depend on borrowed knowledge. This book is not about such external motivation, but about tapping the source of all wisdom and all strength within you. This source is enough to self-motivate you to undertake any task, no matter how difficult, and how challenging. For, this source drives its strength from the Limitless ...

Ubud, a city-village in the middle of Bali, exerts an intense attraction: many people who were only planning to visit briefly end up coming back again and again, and some of them eventually move here to live. Ubud has a certain enchantment that makes people fall in love with it. This charm is examined extensively in the book Ubud: The Spirit of Bali. Various aspects of life in Ubud are described, both broadly and in depth: its history, arts and culture, religious life, and business ...

The present book is a valuable addition to the subject of religion, having been researched and written in a strictly scientific manner. The author has compiled authentic quotations directly from religious books and has left it to the reader himself to understand the crux of religion. ---Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Founder Centre for Peace and Spirituality, New Delhi (India) The word Tolerance should be banned from the English dictionary. In this day and age, we cannot teach our Children to ...

"Suffering, grief and lamentation are the major natures of life in the recent days. For some people, this phenomena is a chastisement from God, castigation upon the greediness of humanuty or any other kinds of condemnation. Nevertheless, this small and modest book distunguishes opportunity for evolution that lies behind the misery. Suffering is indeed frightening for most people, yet this book unveils that sorrow does own other quality than fear for it might become vitamin for the ...

Di antara debat sengit yang sering kali muncul dan mempolarisasi agama-agama di dunia, kemunculan buku HINTS secara tidak langsung menunjukkan apa yang sejatinya menjadi intisari agama, yaitu spiritualitas manusia. Karya cipta dari tiga individual yang unik-Ines Somellera, seorang seniman panggung berkaliber internasional asal Meksiko; Felia Salim, seorang bankir senior, dan Desi Harahap, seorang fotografer terkemuka-HINTS mengungkapkan hubungan kita dengan Tuhan, alam, dan diri kita ...

Are we alive, or merely living? Being alive is very dynamic. It means that we are evolving all the time. Living, on the order hand, can be static. One can go on living without ever evolving!We are living, yes... no doubt! Sadly, however, most of humanity lives in such a way that is so unconscious, and so mechanical. Far too many of us live a routine life that will someday come to an abrupt end, and the... that's it!This book is an invitation to live "fully", to experience life in its ...

An enlightened master was once asked, "Who are you? Are you an angel, a god, or what?" The master replied with a meaningful smile, "I am awake!"Indeed, an enlightened being never claims anything other than just that, and with such profound simplicity! And, this book is an honest account of the writer's journey to such an awekening... of the agony, and the ecstasy, that a soul experiences on its way to enlightenment. The writer also gives the reader numerous useful tips, including a complete ...