Reading Lolota in Teharan....by Azar Nafisi

Beyond the Horizon... Short stories From Contemporary Indonesia... Edited by Devid Hill

This book is comprise of 22 short stories from Indonesia.
All these stories are previously published in local magazines or news paper and are most of them are translated in english by Devid Hill.
These stories show the different colour of the life of an Indonesian life. While reading I thought on any part of earth the one thing of human can not be changed is his 'nature".
Among these stories I liked ...A Letter ...a story of a middle aged woman with children and husband. Husband is away from his family for further studies and is not in contact with his wife and children for more than a year.She is wating for her husband's letter.One day she gets a news from a person of her village about her husbands life style and after hearing she becomes panic and wants to write a letter with all of her anger...and  throughout the nigh she writes one after another letter.. but burn them all and ends with a new letter stating care and love messege."but I am sure you are missing us for more. You have never written, but we know it's only because you are busy,or perhaps there are things which prevent you from writiing. All of us at home will always try to be a comfort to you.Stay healthy and try to look after youeself properly for us. I'll keep on writing to you,to keep you company while you are busy. we're all well  and proud of you. You are the pride of your sons and my most prized possessions......

Jakarta....A story of two brothers....poor and rich.....

Matias Akankari....a story of a man from west Irian who accidentaly visits Jakarta and enters in the so called high class club. At the end he comes bank to his native place and says,"High class in Jakarta are just the same as in West Irian " they all only cover their genitals!

Coming Home... is a very touching story of husband and wife.

one night @call center

Two states...story of my marriage

Madras On Rainy Days....Samina Ali

The Winner Stands Alone....by Paulo Coelho

Brida

"Magic is a bridge,"a bridge that allows you to walk from the visible world over into the invisible world,and to learn the lesson of both those worlds."

" When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointments,defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."

Miracles couldn't be explained ,but they existed for those who believed in them.

"I learned that the search of God is a dark night,that Faith is Dark night.And that's hardly surprise really,because for us each day ia a dark night.None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."

"The Truth is that if the Anima mundi were merely to keep dividing,it would keep growing,but it would also become gradually weaker.That is why,as well as dividing into two, we also find ourselves. And that process of finding ourselves is called Love. Because when a soul divided it always divides into a male part and a female part.

That s how the book of genesis explains it :   the soul of Adam was split in to two and Eve was born out of him."

Humanbeings are all interlinked, like the cards in deck.

"Sometimes we set off down a path simply bacause we don't believe in it. it's easy enough. All we have to do then is prove that it isn't the right path for us. However, when things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on."

So many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

" when we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find.Women are generally seeking their soulmate, and men are looking for Powe.Neither party is really interested in learning.They simply want to reach the things they have set as their goal.

"But the path of magic - like the path of life- is and always will be the path of Mystry. Learning something means coming into contact with the world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble."

" Everything in the Universe has life, and you must always try to stay in contact with that life. It understands your language. And the world will begin to take on a different meaning for you."

" With the exception of a few creature who are descended from the angels -- and who need solitude in order to encounter God ---the rest of humanity will achieve Union with God if, at some point, at some moment in their life, they manage to commune with their Soul Mate."

" In the Night of Time, when we were separated ,one of those parts was charged with nurturing and maintaining knowledge : man. He went on to understand agriculture, nature and the movements of the stars in the sky.knowledge was always the power that kept the universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.That was the glory of the man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.And that is why the whole human race has survived.

"To women was given something far more subtle and fragile, but without which knowledge makes no sense at all,and that thing was transformation. The men left the soil fertile, we sowed seeds, and the soil was transformed into trees and plants.

"The soil needs the seed,and the seed needs the soil.Theone only has meaning with the other.It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation,then the great magical union is created, and its name is "wisdom."

"wisdom means both to know and to transform."

"God is the word. Always be very careful what you say in any situation and at any moment."

"God manifests himself in everything,but the word is one of his most favored method doing so,because the word is thought transformed into vibration;you are projecting into the air around you something which,before,was only energy.Take great care with everything you say,"

"The wor has more power than many rituals".