In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.


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SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
The education of the present-day students is a bit too bookish. The students aim at getting the degr...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
Introspect. Watch the mind. It will gradually grow calmer and calmer. You will be able to find your ...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
If you are good, the whole world will be good for you.
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yo...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA
God had created the world in play.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA
Real education aims at controlling the mind, annihilating egoism, cultivating divine virtues, and at...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA
Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap wil...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA
Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.
SRI AMMA BHAGWAN
I tell you one thing / if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see...
SRI SARADA DEVI
The new definition of God - It has the root in Vedanta. The concentrated form of the whole human rac...
SRI JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND
I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Br...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures an...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Blessed is the mother who gave birth; blessed and respected is the father of one who serves the True...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
There is only one breath; all are made of the same clay; the light within all is the same.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Rare, very rare, is that friend who comes and says, O my Beloved, take me into Your Embrace! O my Lo...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
What is that way, by which the Lord's Praises might be sung? What is that intellect, by which this p...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
O Nanak, in the end, all this vanishes like a dream!
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
He alone knows everything, unto whom the Lord Himself gives knowledge. One may talk and preach and g...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
The True Lord writes His Inscription on each and every head.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Those whose minds are pleased by the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, are joyful in the palaces of the...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
What good are the ceremonial lines drawn around your kitchen, when these four are seated there with ...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
The Lord has become merciful, and now I meditate on the Name of the Lord. Servant Nanak has obtained...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Servant Nanak serves the Lord, the Banker; he shall never again be called to render his account.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
The day of my wedding is pre-ordained. Come - let's gather together and pour the oil over the thresh...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of t...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
What Glorious Virtues of Yours can I describe, O my True Guru?
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Those upon whom He casts His Glance of Grace become His happy soul-brides. One who recognizes her Lo...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Go, and ask the happy soul-brides, By what virtuous qualities do you enjoy your Husband Lord? We are...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
The discarded soul-brides suffer in terrible agony; they have no luck at all.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
O Nanak, they are forever the happy soul-brides, whose light merges into His Light.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
The happy soul-brides receive the Lord's Name, O my Lord of the Universe; night and day, their minds...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Coming and going are very difficult for that bride who is abandoned and forgotten by her Husband Lor...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
If I had a palace made of pearls, inlaid with jewels, scented with musk, saffron and sandalwood, a s...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
People are entangled in the enjoyment of fine clothes, but gold and silver are only dust. They acqui...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB