6. In general, in Saudi Arabia, women have very few rights. A woman does not have the right to go out on the street alone, only accompanied by a male relative. Until recently, they didn’t even have passports; they entered first into the father’s passport, then into the husband’s passport. But the old king gave them the opportunity to have their own passport.
7. At the same time, a woman cannot leave Saudi Arabia alone if she does not have written permission from her father or husband.
8. Another local feature is women's clothing. A woman cannot go out in any clothes except black abaya. Well, the hair, of course, should be covered with a black scarf. The faces are also mostly covered by the niqab, but not always. Moreover, even a European woman has no right to appear in public without an abaya. You don't have to cover your face, and sometimes your hair too. Girls can walk without abaya, up to 12 years old.
9. Men generally wear a dishdash (such a white robe) and with a red-and-white headscarf on their heads. Disdasha is always dazzlingly white and ironed, and an Arab can correct the scarf on his head for half an hour in front of the mirror so that everything sits beautifully.
10. From point 9, we can conclude that the Saudis are usually in no hurry, because in such a dress you can't run, you don't jump, and in general you can only sit gravely or slowly move from one point to another. And it's true, they are not in a hurry.
11. In general, the Saudis are not very hard-working people, I would even say that they are not at all hard-working. To tell the truth, they are lazy. The phrase “If someone can do it, let him do it!” Reflects well their attitude to work. They will definitely promise to do everything tomorrow, but ... The phrase "inshaala bokra" sounds in Arabic more often than others, it means "if Allah permits, then tomorrow." But it seems that Allah often does not allow, so if they tell you “tomorrow”, then it’s at least in a week, but you should not delude yourself, it can also mean NEVER. You just need to get used to it. I do not speak for all the Saudis, perhaps there are hard-working and responsible ones, but I haven’t met such people yet. Although no, one can still be used as an example to others.
12. Saudi colleagues hate to answer letters. Highly. It is better to resolve all issues by phone, and even better - in person. Eyes to eyes. First, talk about life, and then get down to business. Because a letter is a document, and a telephone conversation is just a telephone conversation, you can then say whatever you like, blinking with honest black eyes.
13. The Saudis themselves work mainly in government agencies, and if in some company, then in the HR Department, well, or top management. All other work is carried out by expats (unskilled labor - Indians, Pakistanis, Filipinos, engineers and technicians - Americans, Europeans, other Arabs (Jordan, Yemen, Iraq, etc.)).
14. There is such a thing - Saudization. Each company must necessarily have a certain percentage of the local population in the state, and not just gaster. The more Saudis there are in a company, the more companies are given permits to hire foreigners.
15. Arabs love to go to each other's office at work and talk about life. However, they do it loudly. This endless gyr-gyr-gyr can be heard from everywhere.
16. Returning to point 5, I would like to say that I even understand a little why women are prohibited from driving a car. To drive a car in this country, you need to have eggs of steel, because I have not met such cut-up drivers anywhere else (well, perhaps, in Tripoli, also in Cairo). Interestingly, the Saudis usually do not rush anywhere in life, but they always drive a car quickly and aggressively. You need to be constantly on the lookout so as not to get into an accident. And I see several accidents every day. I traveled several times with the locals as a passenger, the bricks are simply deposited with a bang! The usual picture is that you are driving on the far right at a permitted speed of 120 km per hour, a truck carrying camels overtakes you on the side of the road.
17. In Saudi Arabia, huge fines for traffic violations. The average fine is R $ 500 (1 R $ - 16 rubles). There are cameras around, on the highways there are cars with cameras, but this does not stop anyone.
18. It is not customary for the Saudis to buckle up. Child seat? Nope, I have not heard. Usually, the baby sits with his mother in the front seat, leaning out the window, in the back a bunch of Arab chicks jumping on the seat.
19. It is normal when on a narrow street two Saudis in jeeps stopped opposite each other, blocking the street, and stand chatting, not paying attention to the others.
20. If you see an empty car on a jack in the desert on the side of the road, you are in Saudi. A spare wheel? What a nafig spare tire, you chow?
21. If you are standing in a queue of three cars and suddenly another one starts to wedge in between the first and second cars - you are in Saudi. Oh, how they don't like queues. Oh, they don't.
22. About queues. I met several queues in institutions. For local, non-local and separately for paki / indian / pilipinas. Direct signs hang over the queues. Racism, yeah.
23. White expats usually do not go to government offices, all issues are resolved by the HR members. In cases where your presence is obligatory, the HR person will come with you, lead you from office to office and explain everything. You just need to say hello and smile.
24. In general, if you cannot decide something on your own somewhere, like it’s not supposed to do everything, an Arab and an Arab will always decide between themselves. It's good to have a Saudi friend.
25. And they can easily scribble their scribbles in your documents (for example, in your passport) and they will roll like a document. Even without printing. Verified personally.
26. In Saudi there is a rule of "right hand" - you cannot eat with your left, pass something on, because the left hand is considered unclean (yes, they are washed away with it). A friend works with Arabs at the field, says that they beat on the hands when, forgetting, he takes food with his left hand. As a joke, of course, but still. I also try to apply only with the right one, it costs me nothing, they are pleased.
27. Not every Saudi toilet contains toilet paper, but every one, even the most shabby, will have a washer. Such a small shower hose. An excellent device, I think.
28. Very little western music. Mostly Arabic, all around. Even young people in the car mostly listen to their native mournful tunes. Of all the many radio stations I found only three with Western music: one Radio Bahrain and two from the Saudi Aramco company (one Western pop, the second American nostalgie).
29. Saudi Aramco (Saudi American Company) is the world's largest mining company. Organized by the Americans in the 30s, at first they were 50/50 with the Saudis, then the Saudis squeezed everything out, now the company is 100% owned by local people. Extracts a quarter of all oil on Earth. Lots of people from all over the world work at Aramco. The average salary of a specialist with experience (and inexperienced people are not accepted there) is fifteen bucks.
30. Entertainment is officially prohibited in Saudi Arabia. There is not a single cinema in the kingdom (according to some reports, the first cinema was recently opened in Jeddah, on the campus, but I don't know how true it is).
31. Education in schools is separate: boys separately, girls separately.
32. Each restaurant has two sections: for single men and for families. Because seeing other people's women is not good. Essno, if you are alone, then you will not be allowed into the family section. But even if you came with your wife, you still won't look at someone else's aunt, because even in the family section, the tables are separated by screens so that the woman can uncover and eat quietly.
33. Even in fast food restaurants (McDonald's, for example) there will be two lines to the checkout counters: for women and for others. Food courts are also divided into zones for singles and families. There, the aunts do not uncover, they eat in the curtains. She lifted the curtain with one hand, with the other a fork in her mouth. There is also a division in shopping centers at the checkout counters. Women (or family) separately, single separately.
34. Well, you won't see someone else's aunt's face, very often siblings do not know what the brothers' wives look like. This is normal.
35. Alcohol is prohibited in Saudi Arabia. Strictly prohibited. Punished with imprisonment and sticks. But the locals somehow smuggle it in, brew moonshine with dates and so on. You can buy, but very expensive. The whiskey will cost about $ 300 a bubble.
36. Sticks hurt. Not everyone can stand the punishment with sticks. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but after 100 blows, a person can die. Therefore, the doctor is always nearby, if anything, he will stop the punishment. The rest of the person will receive when heals. If the punishment is, for example, 200 sticks, then it is divided into several months.
37. Pork is prohibited.
38. The death penalty for drugs.
39. For homosexuality, by the way, too! But there are still a lot of gays here. Boys from childhood are separate from girls, there are guys at school, guys at university, in cafes you can only sit in a single section, where there are only guys. Well, this one. Fall in love with each other.
40. Executions are usually on Fridays, in the squares. Cut off the head. The people are standing, looking. I saw the video, not a pleasant sight, I can tell you. However, in recent years, less and less. Mostly for murder.
41. Censorship in Saudi Arabia. Pretty tough. All films even cut out the kissing scenes, not to mention the bed scenes. They just stupidly cut out, no one cares that the plot can get confused from this. Even on the radio, words are cut out of songs. Remember Psy with his Gangnam Style? There's the chorus "Yeah, sexy lady." So in Saudi Arabia he sings simply "Eeeeee, uk lady." Well sex, of course, but an excellent Sia song - Chandelier, where in the chorus "one, two, three, one, two, three, drink", drink is stupidly cut out.
42. But most of all I am touched by the censorship in the shops. There are specially trained people there who paint over the exposed parts of the body of not only women, but also men on boxes and packages. Men's panties are on sale, for example, legs and arms are painted over. An inflatable pool is for sale, the package contains a happy family - the children and the man are left as they are, the aunt is completely closed with a black marker. In fashion magazines, girls in short-sleeved T-shirts are neatly drawn with long sleeves. And laughter and sin.
43. Of religions, only Islam is allowed. All other religions are strictly prohibited. Of course, I wear a cross, but I try not to shine.
44. In addition to the regular police in Saudi Arabia, there is also a religious police, which precisely monitors the implementation of all of the above prohibitions. It's called the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue, or just mutawa. They can come up and make a comment if something is wrong. May be arrested for a serious offense. My friend was once stopped on Friday before lunchtime (the time of the main prayer) and they were asking why he was not at prayer at that time. The fact that he is not a Muslim did not satisfy them very much. I sat in their car until the prayer time was over, then they let me go.
45. They pray here 5 times a day (in the holy month of Ramadan - 6 times). During prayer, the whole kingdom freezes. Shops, all institutions, gas stations are closed for half an hour. NOTHING works. There are a lot of mosques. There are several in each district. Every shopping center, every institution has a prayer room. Each hotel room has a prayer rug, a Quran and an indication of which side of Mecca.
46. In the toilets, before prayer, everything is flooded with water. Since you must always pray clean, the locals wash themselves very carefully, the usual picture is that you go into the toilet, and there they wash your feet in the sinks.
47. Friday is a sacred day! Nobody works. Until lunchtime, everything is closed, the streets are empty, everyone is praying.
48. The Holy Quran is the most needed book. It is also the official constitution of the kingdom, and it teaches devout Muslims what is allowed and what is not.
49. As in all Arab countries, there is a cult of the family. Every Friday they get together with large families in restaurants, for picnics, etc. Elders are highly respected.
50. Gasoline is very cheap in Saudi. A liter of the 91st costs 0.45 real, the 95th - 0.6 (7 and 10 rubles, respectively).
51. For some reason, most Saudi men have long nails. I don’t understand what it’s connected with, but I’m still not used to it, it cranks every time.
52. Saudi Arabia is very hot in summer. Temperatures in the shade can often reach + 50 ° C.
53. Therefore, on summer weekends, all malls (shopping malls) are full of Arabs and expats. They walk in the malls, talk, eat. Personally, it is always cold for me in these malls, because they turn on the air conditioners at + 18 ° C, for the wrapped up Arabs - that's it, and I'm freezing.
54. In general, many expats live in compounds, this is such a territory, separated from everyone by a high wall, with security. Inside the compounds, white women may not wear black abaya, they can wear anything.
55. Arab women dye a lot. Finger-thick eyebrows, brightly colored eyes, henna designs on the wrists. Everything that can be shown, everything is decorated.
56. Despite the fact that women can only appear on the street covered, modern women's clothing stores do not experience a shortage of customers. Arab women are actively buying all this to show off at home in front of her husband.
57. There are no fitting rooms in Saudi shopping malls. Women usually buy clothes, measure them at home, if they don't like it, they bring it back. Or they will try it on in the toilet of the shopping center without a mirror and will also return it if you don’t like it.
58. There is crime. If you leave your laptop in the car, they can break the window and pull it out. In the evening, they can take away the money-phone.
59. The Saudis swim in the sea mostly in clothes. Especially women. Men in shorts and T-shirts, the woman is completely covered. Most cannot swim.
60. The beaches, by the way, are also separate. Somehow, out of ignorance, I came to swim on the family beach, for a long time I did not understand why they were looking at me condemningly. But nobody said anything. People usually come to the beach with a large family, from children to old people. With food, barbecue, hookahs.
61. The country is very dirty. Where there is a person, it is dirty. Paper, bags, packaging. The family came for a picnic, ate and drank, left the whole srach. A common picture - you are driving, a bag of rubbish falls out of the window of the car in front of you. Or he stood at a traffic light, napkins and leftover food are thrown out of a nearby car.
62. The inside of the cars of the Saudis is also usually very dirty. Highly. The interior finishing of the car can be done in a couple of months. Make a mess. Therefore, many people do not remove the plastic from the seat for years.
63. Usually Indians remove garbage from the streets. Well, how is it cleaned up? Pretend. He walks with a bag, picked up one piece of paper, ten remained lying, goes on.
64. Almost every company has a tea boy. The dude who delivers tea and coffee to the offices. Looks in, asks what you want to drink today, leaves, brings.
65. In general, it is not so easy to get to Saudi Arabia, it is not a tourist country. A visa will be given in the case: 1) if you are at work, 2) if you are going to a close relative (daughter, son, mom, dad), 3) if you are a Muslim and perform the sacred Hajj to Mecca.
66. Mecca - the cradle of Islam - is located in the west of the kingdom. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world visit Mecca every year. Non-Muslims are not allowed to enter this shrine.
67. When you come to work in Saudi Arabia, HR usually takes your passport from you (not always and not from everyone, they didn’t take it away from me) and in exchange they issue an ikama (residence permit). Iqama is considered an official document in the kingdom. In order to open a bank account or buy a car, you need an ikama. Nobody asks for a passport. By the way, everyone has ugly pictures on ikama. The photo is taken from the system - the one that was made during the first passport control. Usually he takes a picture somehow from below, and the people are fucked up. When leaving Saudi, the ikama is returned, the passport is returned.
68. After receiving the ikama, you need to obtain a Saudi driver's license. Russians (and many others) are simply issued on the basis of Russian licenses, while, for example, Indonesians need to pass exams from scratch to obtain a license. The water certificate number is exactly the same as that of the ikama. Photo too.
69. Rains are rare in Saudi. Three to four times a year. And therefore, storm sewers are absent here as a class. And therefore, when it does rain, a state of emergency is declared. Cities are flooding, cars are floating.
70. In winter, even snow can fall in the desert. But once every 50 years. In 2013, it was the last time.
71. The deserts in Saudi Arabia are beautiful. The sands are of different colors, from yellow to red. By the way, there are fences along the roads in the desert; you can only enter the desert at certain exits.
72. Although polygamy is allowed in the Kingdom, there is no one among my acquaintances who would have two (let alone four) wives. Because according to the law, if you have a second wife, be so kind as to provide her no worse than the first. I mean, the first wife has a house, which means that you should buy a house for the second wife as well. The first wife has a car with a driver, such and such, the second should be no worse. And time should be given to both of them equal. Not a cheap pleasure, that's it.
73. Almost every Arab family has Filipino or Indian nannies. There are many children, behind all eyes and eyes. And not only nannies. Cleaning women also live in many families. A common picture in the mall is an Arab family walking behind 3-4 children with one or two Filipino nannies.
74. Since entertainment is prohibited, the Saudis try to entertain themselves with whatever they want. One of the entertainments is racing cars (that's why a lot of crashes), riding on two wheels on the side and changing wheels on the go. Another extreme entertainment is slipper racing. This is when you get out of the car at speed and ride on slippers. At speeds over 100 km / h. Don't believe me? Submit "saudi crazy driver" and "saudi crazy skaters" to YouTube.
75. Another entertainment is to throw stones around your car (between the wheels and the bottom). I don't understand what is the point of this.
76. On weekends, neighboring Bahrain and the UAE are flooded with cars with Saudis. They generally call Bahrain "our bar". Yes, yes, from Thursday to Saturday all the bars are packed with Saudis. And Cho, under the roof Allah does not see how they joke.
77. During children's vacations, people travel to Bahrain and the UAE even more massively. There are wild traffic jams on the borders. Entertain children. Cinemas, water parks, everything.
78. The weekend in Saudi Arabia is Friday-Saturday. A couple of years ago, the weekend was on Thursday-Friday, but then they decided to postpone it by one day for international business.
79. Generally they do not know how to drink. They poke into vhlam. Taught one colleague. Well, as taught, explained why he quickly gets drunk, said that the snack is very important. Now he drinks like a human, even his head has stopped hurting in the morning.
80. They like to ask about anything forbidden for them (sex, drinking, etc.). Sometimes they remind me of children.
81. Despite strict prohibitions, local girls still manage to have sex outside of marriage. They meet on social networks, they meet in secret. There are dating houses. Even an expat can get there if the "quest" and face control pass.
82. Saudi Arabia does not celebrate the New Year. Generally. Even Arabic.
83. By the way, according to the local calendar it is now 1436.
84. In the holy month of Ramadan, the Saudis fast. You cannot eat or drink during daylight hours. In recent years, Ramadan fell on the hottest months, it was hard for the Arabs, not a sip of water all day. Expats are also strongly advised not to drink or eat in the presence of fasting people, and to respect the fast. All offices have shorter working hours during Ramadan.
85. But after Ramadan, the whole country walks for 9 days. Well, maybe not the whole country, but our office has been resting for 9 days in recent years.
86. In general, there are officially only three holidays in the country. These are Eid al-Fitr, aka Eid al-Bairam (after Ramadan), Eid al Adha, aka Eid al-Fitr (also, by the way, have 9 days of rest) and National Day.
87. Many sites have been blocked in Saudi Arabia. For example, our "VKontakte", "Chips", not to mention the porn sites.
88. It is forbidden to photograph people (especially military, police and women). Recently, a dude was arrested for finding wedding photographs of various couples (he had a photo studio, and three photographer aunts gave him wedding photos, and he sold to other men). Photos are decent, no nudity, just faces.
89. I have never seen public transport in Saudi Arabia. Taxi only. Perhaps he is somewhere, but not sure.
90. Sometimes at the crossroads you can meet women wrapped in abaya, who walk from car to car and beg. They are not Saudis. Refugees.
91. There are no orphanages in Saudi Arabia. If the parents have died / died, the children live with relatives.
92. Small accidents with scratches and small dents are calm here. They can safely disperse after such an accident, without calling the police and without any complaints at all. They drove me a couple of times slightly aft, just parted.
93. Traffic jams in the desert often go around the desert. Along the side of the road in five rows.
94. Saudis, driving up to the shop, often do not even get out of the car. Specially trained Indians run up, take the order, take the money, run away, bring the order and change. For a penny tip.
95. In general, Indians do a lot here for a penny. For 100 riyals a month you will have your car washed three times a week.
96. Very tasty (in my opinion) local food, especially the grill. Something, but the Arabs know how to cook meat. Served with tortillas, hummus and babaganush. The yummy is unreal. Especially the lamb ribs. And most often the most delicious grill in the most unpresentable cafes. Well, rice. Rice goes automatically.
97. Camels all around. On the sidelines, in the desert, even on the menu. Tried good meat.
98. In many Arabian clothes, instead of a tablecloth, they simply lay polyethylene. Since the Arabs eat everything with their hands (instead of a spoon / fork, a piece of flatbread), they simply dump rice with meat on the table (onto plastic), eat it with their hands, and after eating they simply collect the plastic with food leftovers and throw it away, and the table is again as good as new until the next client ...
99. There are no taxes in Saudi Arabia. You can open any business, make money and do not have to pay taxes. True, it is difficult for expats to open a business; there must be a Saudi in their partners.
100. At Saudi weddings, women walk separately, men walk separately. Often even in different parts of the city. Women come to the celebration in their most beautiful dresses and adornments under abayas, they celebrate openly, but before the newly-made husband comes to pick up his young wife, they again take cover with abayas and niqabs.
And even that which cannot be, may one day also be!
Am I tuned in, my friend, for a Miracle? -
It surrounds everywhere!
Do not separate it, do not measure it -
You just need to believe in it!
Let the inflorescence of miracles descend from heaven to you ...)
Most of the magic in the world seems to be non-existent because we are too blind or too busy to see it. Blindness and disbelief are the two enemies of magic. Seeing and believing - for those who are capable of this, many gates open if they want to.
Andre Norton
They say that there are no miracles left in the world, that there is not a single unicorn, not a single dragon, and the dryads and elves have sunk into the distant past. I myself sometimes believe in the disappearance of all this. But then I remember my childhood, as it is now, and everything again seems to be two-sided, like a magician's hat - a reality and a fairy tale. We are simply kicked by our everyday life that makes us believe that life has one layer.
Elchin Safarli
“You know, Joel, the magic goes away.
- What we are going to do?
- Enjoy the moment.
Man creates miracles with his own hands.
Do not expect a miracle - do something wonderful for yourself!
Do not frighten off the miracle. It is already near ...
A fairy tale is a fairy tale, and if you decide not to pay attention to it, it will step aside, and life will again become as simple as a tram ...
Miracles love to be made clear
How strong ... and how long ...
We are ready to wait for them!
Therefore ... do not happen right away ...
There is a lot of magic in the world. It's just that most people never use it. They don't know how to do it, ”the boy shook his head, regretting the short-sightedness of humanity. - And I, in my opinion, on the verge of opening. I guess the main thing here is to repeat, repeat, repeat what you want to happen, and believe yourself. Then the magic will work, and everything will work out as it should.
Frances Eliza Burnett "The Secret Garden"
Just believe in magic. It's near)
Do miracles happen?
Happen. But only with those who believe in them.
And with those who do not believe?
And with those who do not believe, events happen that cannot be rationalized.
Magic, like a balloon on a string, flies like a butterfly next to us, looks into our eyes, like a kitten, and asks: Well, smile at me, please!
A MIRACLE COMES AT THAT TIME
WHEN YOU ARE READY TO TRUST LIFE
Magic happens only when it should happen, minute by minute. And it happens all the time.
Do you want to see miracles? Make them!
Whenever you trust words
And the truth, which is known by the heart,
Yes to the heart that will ignite from the truth,
There would be no limit to miracles.
Do good deeds in anticipation of a miracle.
Then the miracle will not come to you empty-handed.
There are two ways to live life: the first - as if miracles do not exist, the second - as if there are only miracles around. Albert Einstein
Do not expect a miracle, do your own freak. And run, run from the pessimists, skeptics, whiners, push them away. They destroy expectation and belief in the miracles of life.
Here it is - a miracle. In every breath.
Mixed with the evening scent of freshness and cut grass, with the scent of roses.
It is in every leisurely movement of smiling old men. In the gentle singing of birds hidden in the foliage of the trees. You remember every moment with special acuteness, because this is the moment of your happiness, your victory.
There she is - faith. It seems to you that the entire globe is spinning only by your faith in what is about to happen. This is a moment of divine power. When you don't think about falling. He's gone. Because there is only this moment of taking off into heaven. Geordie wanted to hug the whole world. She felt the whole world in her heart. He was there.
Geordie Rivers. The era of dandelions
Actually, life is full of fantastic and completely incredible coincidences, but usually we manage to miss them all, not even realizing that they are found at every step.
Erlend Lou
One girl knew how to Magic ... The most real. She finished painting the rainbow. As he sees in the sky the one that does not touch the ground, immediately runs after brushes and paints. How else? After all, everyone has long known that the seven-colored tails of the rainbow connect the hearts of those who are destined to meet and love each other ... So it's worthless when a rainbow is not an arc, but just hangs in the sky without touching the ground.
Such magic. What do you know how?
Miracles happen!) The main thing is to know how to happen))
Sometimes miracles come to see people ...
Stop looking for miracles anywhere ... Go to the mirror and smile at it !!! You are the greatest miracle in the entire universe ...
A fairy tale is the most effective remedy for blues after freshly brewed coffee and whipped cream with cherry liqueur.
Magic is self-belief. And when you succeed, then everything else succeeds.
You are already an adult, I know.
But never stop believing, okay?
Close your eyes and you will feel it around you.
Children need a fairy tale
To become fearless
Adults also need it - just like that,
just...
The main thing for me is not to stop being surprised. Before going to bed, I certainly give myself a command to discover something amazing early in the morning. Ray Bradbury
Man is the king of nature. But not because he can cut down the forest, but because he can grow it in the desert. A person can perform a miracle if only he wants to.
There should always be a place in life for a fairy tale ...
Maybe there are no miracles at all, but a piece of something magical clearly exists in this world.
I understood one simple Truth - Miracles have to be done with your own hands! If a person's Soul craves for a Miracle - make him this Miracle !!!
"SCARLET SAILS". Captain Gray.
Sitting on the edge of a cloud
An angel is eating a cookie
And where crumbs touch the ground
Miracles happen there ...
I came to the conclusion that magic is what pushes, lifts and generally makes things out of nothing ... So, magic is just everywhere - around us, and in all other places too.
Miracles are happening everywhere, you just need to have a sensitive heart, a receptive eye.
- and you will see that matter and spirit dance together everywhere.
Osho "Beyond Enlightenment"
Bus, trolleybus or taxi.
The man is going home.
After work.
An ordinary coat, briefcase or bag.
Thoughts in my head.
Unhappy, viscous, deaf.
And almost nothing pleases ...
But you know what?
This is not at all about that.
The point is that this person is actually a wizard.
The most real.
And he can work the most real miracles.
And at home he has a magic cloak with twinkling stars gathering dust.
Only now he completely forgot about it.
Actually, he forgot about everything.
Forgot who he is.
I forgot about my magic power.
Forgot how to work miracles ...
Do you know who this person is?
Every day is an adventure that is often hidden behind the mundane. Miracles always happen, they are all around us, you just need to be able to look.
Magic grows out of deep inner silence ...
Faith works miracles. By the principle of reciprocity.
We seem to have learned everything in the world.
Have managed to change your mind about everything
But still, like little children.
We believe in the impossible and wait ...
Don't put in so much effort, all the best things happen unexpectedly.
Gabriel García Márquez
There is a place on earth where nothing is impossible and everything becomes reality. You just have to believe it.
It is strange that we do not notice the miracles taking place around us. The world has accumulated huge reserves of unperceived wonders ...
If we believe in what cannot be seen,
then for me it is better to believe in miracles than in bacteria.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen!
The world can be magical. If you want to...
I want to meet summer sunrises on your rooftops, inwhich is so much magic ...
If you really dream, then do not deny yourself anything, right?
Meanwhile, life is full of miracles, and the most important magic lies in the fact that we can create them ourselves! Moreover, it's not that difficult;)
Some people can live their entire lives without noticing the small miracles that happen to us every day - these blessings that God sends us from heaven in order to make us smile, laugh or move to the depths of our souls, in order to gently draw us closer to to your side. Donna Vanleer - Christmas Shoes
Do you know what the problem is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problems, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.
Man is looking for miracles.
If only he could see
how wonderful the human heart ...
It is easier to repeat a miracle than to explain it.
Frances Eliza Burnett. Mysterious garden.
Miracles always happen in spite of everything.
The more contrary, the more wonderful the miracle.
In the wizarding world, anything is possible:
Fly like a bird, chat with an elf,
And to fly to the moon is not so difficult.
After all, it is not shameful for us to dream in a dream!
In the duel between reality and fantasy, power is not always on the side of reality.
John Steinbeck
And no matter how much they tell me that this is impossible, I will believe that somewhere there is still my wonderland ...
BELIEVE IN MAGIC!
Well, if you don't believe in magic, then it won't touch you. If you do not believe that the world has its own heart, then you will not hear how it beats.
Be surprised, and the world will surely pleasantly surprise you again.
I still admire the view of the clouds and the sunset. I always make a wish when I see a rainbow or a shooting star. I saw a meteor shower. The world is full of wonders.
It is difficult for a person in this life to do without secrets and old legends, without those fairy tales that the planets whisper to each other at night.
Howard Lovecraft
You sit with folded hands on your belly and wait for a miracle. And still there is no miracle. But there is a belly.
Whichever path you choose, new adventures are always waiting for you!
There is magic, which is taught from the book, with difficulty memorizing spell after spell. And there is another that comes from the depths of the heart, from the depths of a loving heart.
Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell about the existence of dragons, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.
People are interesting creatures. In a world full of wonders, they managed to come up with boredom.
The magician is not the one who turns lead into gold, or causes a storm ... The magician is the one who can see the souls hidden in the body and make them blossom! ..
Miracles happen in life! They just don't happen by magic. People make them themselves, for example, for those they love.
I came to the conclusion that magic is what pushes, lifts and generally makes things out of nothing. Leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers, foxes, squirrels and even people are made of magic. This means that magic is just everywhere - around us, and in all other places too.
Magic is the real world, whose boundaries the child's imagination can make endless.
We shout that miracles do not happen, without even trying to find them.
There are shy miracles. They rub against the sleeve, attach themselves to the eyelashes. They wait for you to notice them, and then they melt.
Miracles are not necessarily such great events, and they can happen in the most unexpected places. They can be in the sky, or on the battlefield, or in the kitchen in the middle of the night. For a miracle to happen, you don't even have to believe in miracles, but when a miracle happens, you will definitely know about it, because then something completely ordinary, which seemed completely insignificant, suddenly becomes very, very important. This is why miracles are best for the simplest things, the simpler the better; the less likely a miracle is, the more wonderful it is.
Miracles are not necessarily grand; a miracle can happen in the most unexpected place; the most amazing miracles happen in the most ordinary setting.
Miracles happen every moment. Nothing else happens.
Not everyone is able to see what the stars are doing in anticipation of summer. So sit by the window, breathe as quietly as possible ... and you will see ... And let this be your big and amazing secret ...
Sometimes miracles are so tiny that people just don't notice them.
Remember that miracles do not belong to you, but you belong to them. Even when it comes to miracles that you do yourself. Max Fry
Miracles are happening around us. We need to open our eyes to see them.
The wizarding world is a world filled with something very close. This is a world where you can escape from problems, where you are always welcome. To love magic is to be able to enjoy everything, both little things and important things, like a child. This is when you grew up, and in your soul there was still a small child who loves miracles and fairy tales. A true lover of magic is the kindest and friendliest creature on the planet.
It is the desire to believe that life is a miracle that allows miracles to happen.
We become blind to what we see every day. But every day is different, and every day is a miracle. The only question is to pay attention to this miracle. Paulo Coelho
A fairy tale is the most effective remedy for blues after freshly brewed coffee and whipped cream with cherry liqueur. V. Kovaleva, All About Fairies
As long as you try to control Life, there will be no miracle in it. It just can't be. A miracle comes only at the moment when you are ready to trust Life. And it comes by itself, without notice, without warning, without guarantees.
The modern reader requires that magic be done in accordance with the laws of physics. They want magic to work logically, they need cause and effect, they need the principle of conservation of matter and energy ... They do not want magic to be done as if by magic ... Lois McMaster Bujold. Answers
Only those who are able to believe in magic will receive unlimited power over reality ...
Real wisdom is the experience of a miracle. This feeling of miracle is everywhere, wherever you go, in everything, wherever your gaze falls: in the eyes of a child, in the beauty of a flower, in the flight of a bird. Deepak Chopra
My heart, never lose hope
miracles live in the invisible.
Rumi
Imagination is what makes the magician great, for thanks to it he can go beyond the boundaries of tradition and beyond the structure of what exists today, into the higher realm of creation of the very fabric of magic. Terry Goodkind
Magic is dissolved in the air, in the space around us. True, there is very little of it, the smallest grains, so an ordinary person does not notice these grains.
As long as I believe that fairy tales are real, magic will not leave me.
Clive Staples Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
Only those who are able to believe in magic will receive unlimited power over reality.
Perhaps, in order to experience a miracle, one must believe in miracles? Dan Brown
People who love magic are absolutely pure.
I came to the conclusion that magic is what pushes, lifts and generally makes things out of nothing. Leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers, foxes, squirrels and even people are made of magic. This means that magic is just everywhere - around us, and in all other places too. Francis Burnett. Mysterious garden
Miracles cannot be proven.
... miracles cannot be explained, they spoil from this ... Max Fry
Miracles don't really violate the laws of nature.
K.S. Lewis talked about it and it's an incredible revelation.
If we think miracles are common, we will expect them.
And waiting for a miracle is a surefire way to get it.
A miracle is a phenomenon accompanied by a violation of the laws of nature. For the majority of our contemporaries, the most desirable miracle is “increasing the bread”. This is undoubtedly a miracle. But miracles are closer to me, strengthening in faith, revealing the secret of the Fatherly love and care of the Lord God, to a person carelessly dormant in his unbelief.
1. The error of pedagogy
I was born and raised in Kiev. At the Baikovo cemetery, the oldest in the city, there are more than one generation of the Mogilny family. Even godlessness could not erase respect for the dead from the Soviet people. It seems that the outrageous screams "on the coffins", at times turning into fights of "grieving" relatives, softened the hearts of the party officials. On one of these memorial days, my parents and I ended up in the cemetery. After tidying up and decorating the graves, we returned home with a sense of accomplished duty. Leaving the cemetery fence, my parent, the party organizer of the plant, suddenly crossed himself and said: "They rest in peace!" For me, a newly minted pioneer, these words cut my ears. "The land is a stone to them," I blurted out thoughtlessly. My mother, who was sitting next to me, immediately kicked me in the lips with a snub-nosed pioneer nose with freckles, from which blood ran. At that moment I realized - there is a God! There was no offense, there was only a joyful feeling of meeting with the Creator, with the One who is above everything, who owns the universe, life and death! Since then I have been looking for Him. My parents didn't beat me either before or after
2. The cry of the persecutor
An old believing woman lived in our entrance on the ninth floor. Every day she went to the Florovsky Monastery for services. After the incident at the cemetery, I wanted to ask her about God, for which I watched repeatedly, but for some reason the ninety-year-old woman avoided talking. Soon I joined the crowd of boys and, together with them, teased Praskovya Romanovna, that was the name of the prayer book, calling her a "panther." My elder brother was especially zealous for the persecutor. The old woman quietly whispered prayers, looking "through" us, idiots, as if seeing something in the background ... From time to time she gave me and my brother prosphora, we loved them very much for their extraordinary taste, ate, but never stopped teasing.
Years have passed. My brother was the first to go to church (now he is a novice in a monastery), then my turn came. When Praskovya Romanovna died, I served in the army. My brother, upon learning of her death, read the Psalter all night at the tomb. And when her body in a black robe was buried, he cried.
3. Seminarians and hard workers
I went to church after the army. With neophyte fervor, he gave up all "worldly" undertakings and got a job at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Once they gave me two seminarians to help me for practice. The good-looking youths, initiated into the secrets of spiritual science, did not fit into the context of the excavation work on the clay slopes of the monastery courtyard. I decided to let them go home. One with "angelic" speed immediately left, and the other stayed. For a whole week, as a child, I elicited from him the "secrets" of salvation, listening with an open mouth about Seth, Noah, Elijah, Barak and Deborah, Samson and the Wise Solomon. I heard the terrible reproof of the Forerunner, was in awe of the Holy Trinity and marveled at the exploits of the Caves saints. He opened the world of Vera to me, and I still consider him my mentor. We are now over forty. I finished Spiritual
seminary, was ordained. Now my "trainees" are respected priests, close friends and godfathers, just relatives. Thank You Lord.
4. Prayer of the neophyte.
My first months in the Church coincided with my work at the Lavra farm. The conflicting blessings of the brethren brought me into a "stupor" of despondency. I wanted to drop everything and leave. Then I remembered the famous Kiev priest, whose elder brother took care of. It seemed that only he could resolve my bewilderment. I began to ask: "Lord, help me to see the priest." It was about seven o'clock in the morning, no one was around. Suddenly someone called out to me: "Baby, do you know why the caves are closed?" Before me stood a wonderful old man with a snow-white beard and the same hair. “You are not Father Michael,” I asked. He answered in the affirmative. I clung to him for joy and after an hour and a half of conversation “became a different person”, not discouraged anymore. For the next fifteen years, until his death, the priest was my confessor.
5. "And the Lord will give you according to your heart"
My wife gave birth to eight children. So, eight times we painfully decided what to name the baby. More precisely, not eight, but seven. Mother liked the name Tikhon very much, there was no doubt about it. After the eldest son, the Lord sent only girls. She prayed at the relics of the saint in the Donskoy monastery, and two years later, at the Annunciation, she gave birth to her fifth child - a son. On this day, the Holy Church commemorates Saint Tikhon. Tikhon means "happiness".
6. Not in the logs, but in the ribs.
They ordained me to a parish in a village near Kiev. As the saying goes, "no stake, no yard," and not a church. Virgin land overgrown with "weeds" of human disbelief. The chairman singled out the hut. The walls are made of pressed straw, from a half-brick street, 18 square meters. The altar was made during the night and the first service was served on Christmas. Almost ten years passed, but the temple still could not be built. Our people are not rich, rural. I came to the confessor to cry, and he: “God is not in logs, but in ribs”! Build temples in the souls of human beings, the rest will be controlled by the Lord ... And so it happened. There was a fire in our mitten church on Christmas Eve. I went through the village to ask for a room to serve until spring. Everyone shrugs: no, they say premises ... One owner of the plant said: "I'll think, come back in a week." The week flew by, I came, and he: "I was talking with friends here, they are believers, in general, we decided to build a temple in the village." And in a year they built it, out of logs, but a temple of such beauty, perhaps, cannot be found anywhere else. Wonderful are Thy works, O Lord!
7. "Don't be afraid of me"
Every year on Holy Easter our community congratulates the prisoners in prison. From the beginning of the chanting in the temple and the consecration of the offerings. Then we go to the prison hospital, distribute eggs and Easter, congratulate the sick. Then to the "pit", a place where the most "hardened" criminals are kept. We sing, distribute, sprinkle with holy water. Camera by camera. We open the next one, on the threshold there is a "fellow", "oblique fathom", a face - it is scary to look. Look like from the underworld, goosebumps ... Sprinkle or not sprinkle? I sprinkle abundantly ... And suddenly a smile appeared on his face - like the sun. I shout: "Christ is Risen!" “Truly Risen,” he thunders back. After Easter, he left the "pit" and began to go to church. Freed himself, he left a thieves' life. Now Yurka always has a smile on his face instead of the "seal of Cain", and his hands are covered with calluses ... Truly Risen! In general, a prison is a land of Wonders. I remember they asked to give communion to a person dying of AIDS, doctors from prison even sent him home to die. The blackened, very thin face of the martyr was engraved in my memory, his temperature was then 41. A few weeks later someone hugs me from behind and asks: "Do you recognize, father?" Some rosy-cheeked citizen in front of me, no, I don't recognize. "And you gave me communion then, and the Lord did not let me perish, left me to live ..." He is still alive, I hope he will live with God to freedom.
8. Pop and Jew.
The drilling rig worked for a month, but there was still no water. They invited the priest, suddenly he will help. A prayer service was served, it helped, the water began to flow. The director of the service station says: "We take, father, your car" on bail "! And the priest in the old Zhigul became a frequent guest at the station. One guy worked there as a manager. Cheerful, sociable, everyone's favorite. And our priest did not bypass "attention", sometimes making "blasphemous" jokes. Although later he approached and conscientiously inquired: “Didn't you offend me - I’m a Jew, I’m an unbeliever. “There are no unbelievers,” the priest answered slyly, patting his interlocutor on the back ... Years passed, the Zhigulenok broke down, the priest came, the Jew teased, the Lord did His own ... Our Jew met a beautiful girl. Lost his head, calling the blue-eyed to marry. And she is a confessor of the Orthodox faith, and boldly to him like this: “Why do I need you,“ infidel ”?! Disappointed disbeliever. I began to read the Bible. Yes, and calls the priest, the case, they say, is, important. And the father told him right off the bat: "Is there a godfather?" He was taken aback: "How do you know that I want to be baptized?" The priest answered: "First a Jew, and then ...". For your sake the Savior came, and then he called us, the Gentiles, to salvation. Soon our Jew was baptized, married to a blue-eyed, and their children were born. Batyushkin's "Zhigulenok" was melted down long ago in open-hearth furnaces, and now they see the "Jew" in church on Sundays. Father now hears pious jokes and shines, rejoicing, because "In Christ there is no Jew, Ellin, slave, or free" ...
9. According to your faith ...
A woman and a girl entered the temple. They asked the priest. "How can I help you?" - called the priest who came out of the altar? "Baptize my daughter?" - asked the lady. "How old are you, girl, years?" - "Sixteen". The priest told how to prepare for the sacrament. The girl began to visit the temple and was baptized six months later. After her baptism, Tanya did not forget the way to the temple. She began to climb the choir and soon began to regent. Church - home, home - church. And so for more than ten years. The mother began to murmur: “You are under thirty, but you live like a nun. It's time to get married. Throw your church! " And Tanya was not going to quit. She asked and waited - the only one that God prepared for her by faith. And he "came, saw, conquered." We did not have a more solemn wedding at our parish. Soon they will have a baby. The spirit goes wherever it wants.
10. Not holy pots are fired.
My parents were ordinary people. They lived together for forty-five years an amazing, full of good life. My brother and I kept warm in their love, and she poured over the edge of our house, gathering many good people under the roof. Sometimes it seems to me that it is not always worth worrying God: you should learn to work miracles yourself
Quotes about miracles are used to create essays, formulate statuses for social networks, and simply read to cheer up. They are preferred not only by romantics and people with a fine mental organization, but also by those who are tired of the dullness and ordinariness of days. We offer quotes about miracles to awaken the belief that life consists of beautiful little things and surprises.
Beautiful quotes, statuses about a miracle
- "To believe in a miracle, you need not dig into the essence of what is happening."
- "A miracle is a fusion of everything. The beauty of the sunset, the wind in your hair, warm breath and awe in your chest. Miracles are available, you just have to see them."
- "The feeling of unreality of what is happening, familiar to many, is an attempt at miracles to get into our souls."
- "He who believes in miracles cannot be unhappy."
- "There are two human qualities that prevent you from believing in miracles - blindness and callousness."
- "And no matter how much life is executed, the strong believes in miracles."
- "A miracle is at every step. Someone just sees it as a coincidence, and someone sees it as magic."
- "A person denies what he does not notice. So it is with miracles."
- "A miracle will never happen if it is not expected."
- "Miracles love the patient."
- "Miracles do not tolerate hypocrisy. They feel when they do not believe in them."
Quotes about New Year's miracle
- "Believing in the magic of the New Year is giving yourself a chance to start over."
- "Have you noticed that no one is waiting for New Year's Eve like children? They believe, in fact, in simple things that are available for every adult to perform. So why don't we ourselves believe it?"
- "Even the most notorious skeptics believe in miracles while chimes chime."
- "We are rarely as happy as decorating a house on New Year's Eve. Maybe a miracle lives in a box with garlands?"
- "It's easy to believe in the magic of New Year's Eve. It's harder to rejoice after the good."
Quotes about miracles and magic
- "Adults often think that belief in magic is available only to children. They don't understand that it exists when they want to believe in it."
- "A new day and dawn is already a miracle."
- "Sorcery and magic have very little in common. The first is born in the soul, the second in deceiving the other."
- "We are often deceived that not everything is possible. But it takes and happens. And how can you not believe in magic?"
- "Magic is subjective. Someone sees it in the sparkling frost on the trees, someone - in the kiss of a loved one."
Quotes about a miracle with your own hands
Quotes about miracles can make you look at your life from a different angle. Consider in it accidents that led to unexpected pleasant consequences. And believe that we ourselves are capable of performing a miracle.
- "Each of us is a magician and a wizard. You just need to remember this."
- "Kindness to another person works better than a magic wand."
- "Not everything can be explained by a person. But he is able to give meaning to everything. So it is with miracles."
- “To hug a sad person is to give him a little magic.
- "Everyday life differs from a fairy tale in that the first one likes to take, and the second one - to give."
- "Belief in magic is a form of self-hypnosis. By directing our thoughts towards the fulfillment of our dreams, we miraculously attract it."
- "We endow many objects with mysterious power. And we don't even notice when they start to work, writing off everything as coincidences and patterns. Or maybe, in fact, everything is not so?"
- "You can choose for yourself which path in life to go: to believe that everything is around - and to be sure that miracles do not happen."
- "You can not wait for a miracle, but give it to another. Then it will return to you not empty-handed."
Quotes about miracles can be misused. They are easy to write into a message for someone who is desperate and needs support. They can be made as a reminder on your phone or as part of a wish card. After all, they are easy to remember and recall in moments of weakness and sadness.
For more than ten years I had a chance to serve in a cemetery church. And with the grief of the loss of loved ones, I faced almost every day. When you address people with similar words, everyone hears them, but no one accepts them right away. Only after some time - a month, a year, ten years - the person returns: “Now I understand why my neighbor is better there than here. Why it was necessary to pick it up then, and not now ”. We are talking about a miracle, and very often it becomes a miracle for a person to be assured that the Lord there is taking care of our neighbors.
One of my parishioners once had the following story. In a very short period of time - about six years, it seems - she buried first her only son, and then her husband. And of course, the bitterness of parting and loss was unbearably heavy. She came to our church, lit candles, but in a strange way she could not believe either in the afterlife, or even in any sense in God. I wanted to believe - but I could not. If she had been sure of the existence of an afterlife, she would have immediately calmed down, because she considered “her boys” to be people so good that they would certainly have been honored with God's most blessed fate. As time went on, she kept coming and crying that she could not believe that there was something there.
And suddenly one day comes completely happy and says: "Father, I believe!" What happened? On one of the birthdays of either her husband or her son, she sat at home at the table in front of two photographs of “her boys”. There were five roses in a vase on the table. She tried to talk to God, in whom she almost did not believe: “Lord, if you exist, give me at least some sign that they are good with you there. Assure me of this - I don’t need more. ” And suddenly one of the roses begins to swing. The other four stand motionless, and one swings left and right with a large amplitude. At first, the woman was seriously scared. I went to look for a draft somewhere. It seems not, the windows and doors are closed. And suddenly she realized: here it is - a sign. So she believed in God and in the afterlife.
Telling me this story, she asked what I think: the rose is swinging - isn't it too mystical? And I thought that it could not be otherwise with her. You can imagine another attempt at assurance on the part of God. This woman is sitting at home - and suddenly the doorbell rings. She opens, and there is a fine-looking man, thirty-three years old, in a hoodie, with long hair, a beard and nail marks on his hands. He says: "I am the Christ, I am, here are My documents." "What would you do?" - I ask my parishioner. "I would close the door," she replies, "because this person is clearly sick." "Did you throw that rose away?" - I ask, and she replies: "No, of course!"
A miracle is a meeting of a person with God, when the Lord suddenly opens a small veil for you, tries to answer you and show His presence. A miracle is when a person suddenly realizes that God exists. A miracle is a state when everything temporary is no longer so important to you, and everything that is eternal becomes extraordinary value for you. And this state for a person is the norm, conceived by God.
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