The secret of beauty is acceptance. Beautiful is what attracts our attention, makes it contemplative in a positive way. Beautiful are the forms that we take with all our soul, which resonate with something deep within us. Looking at the wonders of beauty, we get a hint of a complete "total" acceptance of reality here and now. Therefore, a person is drawn to beauty. We accept beauty, readily inhale its aroma, let it into our own heart, so contemplation at this time occurs without any effort, by itself. When a person sees the divine, his acceptance and contemplation reach the highest degree. happy because he lives in harmony with himself - he accepts the divine within himself and in the outside world.
If on this site (or anywhere else) you come across illogical concepts that there is no way to check, perhaps it is best to take these "miracles" as "philosophy", or (better yet) as something about what you just don't know to be honest. Maybe these concepts reflect "objective" reality, but maybe not. Experience is subjective. The mind (even for a sober person) has its limitations and its interpretations are far from always adequate. Under some articles on the site, it would probably be necessary to open the heading “near-esoteric nonsense”, which should not be taken into service ahead of the allotted time.
When faced with this kind of theory, being sober about such things means admitting, "I don't know." If a person, for example, unequivocally asserts that "miracles" do not happen simply because he did not see them, this is an obvious self-deception. It would be more honest to admit that miracles do not happen in his life. If a person has not seen "miracles", then to believe or not to believe is equally blind. Any look reflects the current person. And the worldview “thing” is dynamic, and from time to time undergoes (sometimes drastic) changes.
And then, what is a miracle? At the experiential level, "miracle" is the surprise we experience when our attention spontaneously picks up intensity and perception "accelerates" to a marvelous awareness of the present moment in which life is happening. Behind this, people travel to get their share of impressions, looking at what they have not seen before, in order to experience a small “miracle”. It is easy to get rid of this dependence. When a person practices, he sees as it is, that every new moment is really new, it is always our living, accepting reality here and now.
At the event level, miracles happen when we see something inexplicable. This "inexplicable" attracts attention and makes consciousness. The miracle is just a "trick" that we haven't debunked yet. A miracle is just an unusual phenomenon. Miracles happen when the "laws" of the world familiar to us are influenced by the laws of the world, which we have not yet had time to learn about. A person cannot know everything. A person can "stiffen", close from reality, but miracles will never end. . The unknown will always be immeasurably greater in comparison with the already understood and meaningful. Not every "trick" we are destined to expose.
Esotericism and psychology one way or another talk about the same thing, and even the terms often overlap. Difference by by and large that psychology is limited by its claims to be scientific. And esotericism sometimes impudently uses its shameless looseness. Expanding the boundaries of knowledge, to the same extent, it creates tons of "schizoteric" nonsense of pseudo-spiritual illusions. The deeper the esoteric digs, the more powerful "filters" of the mind he needs to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Perhaps one of the most inexplicable miracles available to our perception is that we are. The feeling "I am" is an obvious truth. From this "experience" we contemplate life. It is the backbone of almost all spiritual and esoteric teachings. At the same time, even a follower of the materialistic doctrine will not deny that he exists. "I am" is a simple and practical truth. In this experience of our own being, our life takes place. This is the main support sober look for life. And, probably, the only real "" is oblivion in which a person hides from himself. The only one for real important merit is the ability to be yourself here and now.
I don't know what I don't know, but I know what I saw. What I saw can be called an illusion, because it is not here and now. But I know that here and now I am. I see it and it's the most important thing. It is not a philosophy or a religion. This is the simplest and most obvious truth. And in me, as in the feeling of "I am," my life happens. This is reality. She is here and now.
Should we call it mysticism, esotericism, psychology, physics, biology, or something else? To whom, as it is more convenient and familiar. All words are just a way of talking about reality. When this "method" is taken for reality, problems begin. When you truly are, you are happy.
P overheard a conversation in the store:
- We ourselves told our son that Santa Claus does not exist and that we ourselves put gifts under the Christmas tree. He cried a lot, but then he calmed down and even laughed with us ...
I felt so sorry for this unfamiliar boy that I almost cried myself.
Does a child need faith in miracles? Many parents believe that it is frankly harmful, and, as Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya said in the 1920s in a dispute about fairy tales, it only leads him away from real life. In fact, however paradoxical it may seem, the presence of a miracle in a child's life gives him a foothold, universally explaining those events and phenomena of life that he cannot yet explain in any other way. At school, the appearance of religious beliefs among ancient peoples was explained by approximately the same reason - the need to somehow justify thunder, lightning, the change of seasons and other events that frighten our ancestors.
The popularity of fairy tales all over the world, including among adults, suggests that we simply need miracles. The story of a young wizard with glasses did not just become the most read in the world for many years. Children from year to year ask Santa Claus magic wand, a unicorn and a meeting with fairies - these are future adults who, if life does not harshly explain to them that miracles do not happen, will wait for other miracles that are no less necessary, desirable and sometimes impossible: meeting with “their” person, a long-awaited child, recovery loved one- and perceive gifts of fate and unexpected surprises as a miracle.
I understood well what a real miracle is, one day winter evening in the Finnish village where we came to the zoo. At the exit from there, the daughter saw a toy fox in the souvenir shop. She knew perfectly well that it was useless to ask us to buy it, she knew by heart that she would hear about a bunch of soft toys, which gather dust at home, about the fact that we were not going to buy anything here and so on, so she did not even try to ask him. I only saw how she was looking at him and how she was holding him in her hands, and I understood everything. So when she obediently put it in its place and went outside with her grandmother, after she was called, I grabbed my husband by the hand and said that we should immediately buy a fox, even if for this we have to miss the bus. And we bought it, and ran out into the street to catch up with our daughter and grandmother, and called out to her, and when she looked back, I saw that she had tears in her eyes. But she really roared when dad took out from behind this little fox she needed for some unknown reason ... This was a real miracle.
Do not prevent children from waiting for a miracle and believing in it. This is their future faith in the benevolence of the world, in hope, in a dream, in themselves. Do not dissuade children of the existence of miracles. Usually, faith in Santa Claus and good sorceresses is slowly fading away by itself, and those parents who want to speed up growing up and expel a miracle from a child’s life as soon as possible, dumping on him the correct, from their point of view, information, risk getting the most unexpected out of the blue reactions. The same thing can happen if one of his peers speaks out as such a voice of truth, especially if the truth is conveyed to him in a rude or mocking form. If a child has doubts about the existence of miracles in real life, if friends explained everything to him, or if he saw an uncle artist dressing up as Santa Claus, then it’s time for a serious and important conversation about the fact that miracles do exist in life after all. There is.
Each of us can remember amazing coincidences and inexplicable cases that perfectly illustrate this, and tell an adult child about them, because a miracle is when we were not supposed to meet a person, but met, a miracle is when something bad was definitely supposed to happen, but it did not happen, a miracle - when suddenly some amazing story of salvation happened before your eyes.
Sometimes we, unwittingly, deprive children of the opportunity to believe in miracles. We fulfill their desires before they have time to want something, we buy the best and invent fantastically beautiful, after which they have nothing to dream about, nothing to look forward to. Experienced Santa Clauses - artists who go to congratulate children on New Year's days, talking about their hard work, often mention their little clients who do not need anything, because they have everything. There is simply no place for a miracle in their life, because there are no desires. One "grandfather" with a shudder recalled a girl from a wealthy family, the dialogue with which looked like this:
Girl, do you know who I am?
- Do you want to know?
- Don't want.
Do you like to solve riddles?
- I do not like.
- Would you like a present?
- Don't want.
They gave something expensive and beautiful - the child looked without interest, pushed it away and waited for what would happen next. And "grandfather" had to apply everything professional tricks in order to still break through this ice, hook this child, make him speak with interest, smile, want something ... Another colleague of his told about a boy who did not know what to everything is. In such a world where mom and dad are omnipotent, of course, there is no place for either Santa Claus or the good fairy.
Captain Gray once said best of all about how to maintain faith in a miracle: “I understood one simple truth. It is to do so-called miracles with your own hands. When the main thing for a person is to receive the dearest nickel, it is easy to give this nickel, but when the soul harbors the seed of a fiery plant - a miracle, do this miracle for him, if you are able. new soul He will have a new one for you. When the head of the prison himself releases the prisoner, when the billionaire gives the scribe a villa, an operetta singer, and a safe, and the jockey holds his horse for once for the sake of another horse that is unlucky, then everyone will understand how pleasant it is, how inexpressibly wonderful. But there are no lesser miracles: a smile, fun, forgiveness and - timely said, the right word. Owning this means owning everything.”
Let me remind you that Alexander Grin wrote these lines in December 1920 in frozen Petrograd during the war, revolution and typhus epidemic, in the room of the famous "House of Arts". A smile, fun, forgiveness and the right word said in time - these are miracles, faith in which, growing out of children's expectation New Year's fairy tale should never die.
A good reason to have a family conversation on complex but important topics can be watching a play in new production Theater of Nations.
And even what cannot be, one day it can be too!
Are you in the mood, my friend, for the Miracle? -
It is all around!
It can not be separated, not measured -
You just need to believe in it!
Let the inflorescence of miracles descend from heaven to you ...)
Much of the magic in the world seems 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 - many gates are opened for those who are capable of it, if they want to.
Andre Norton
They say that there are no miracles left in the world, that there is no longer a single unicorn, not a single dragon, and dryads with elves have sunk into the distant past. I myself sometimes believe in the disappearance of all this. But then I remember my childhood, as now, and everything again seems to be two-sided, like a wizard's hat - reality and a fairy tale. It’s just that everyday life with its kicks makes us believe that life has one layer.
Elchin Safarli
“You know, Joel, the magic is going away.
- What we are going to do?
- Enjoy the moment.
Man creates miracles with his own hands.
Don't wait for a miracle - teach yourself something wonderful!
Don't scare away the miracle. It's already close...
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 simple as a tram ...
Miracles love to be made to understand
How much... and for how long...
We are ready to wait!
Therefore ... they do not happen immediately ...
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 shortsightedness of mankind. And I think I'm on the brink of discovery. 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 nearby)
Do miracles happen?
Happen. But only with those who believe in them.
What about those who don't believe?
And with those who do not believe, events happen that cannot be rationally explained.
magic like 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 IN THAT MOMENT
WHEN YOU ARE READY TO TRUST LIFE
Magic happens only when it is supposed to happen, minute by minute. And it happens all the time.
Do you want to see miracles? Create them!
Whenever you trust not words,
And the truth that the heart knows,
Yes, the heart that ignites from the truth,
There would be no limit to miracles.
In anticipation of a miracle, do good deeds.
Then a miracle will come to you not 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
Don't expect miracles, miracle yourself. And run, run from the pessimists, skeptics, whiners, move them away. They destroy expectation and faith 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 unhurried movement of smiling old people. In the gentle singing of birds hiding in the foliage of trees. You remember every moment with special acuteness, because this is the moment of your happiness, your victory.
There she is - faith. You think that all Earth spinning only your faith in what should soon happen. This is the moment of divine power. When you don't think about falling. He is not. Because there is only this moment of taking off into the sky. Geordie wanted to hug the whole world. She felt the whole world in her heart. He was there.
Geordie Rivers. Age of Dandelions
In fact, life is full of fantastic and completely incredible coincidences, but usually we manage to miss all of them, not even realizing that they are found at every turn.
Erlend Lu
One girl was able to do Magic… The real thing. She drew a rainbow. As soon as he sees in the sky the one that does not touch the earth, 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 not good when the rainbow is not an arc, but simply hangs in the sky without touching the ground.
Such magic. What are you good at?
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 most great miracle throughout the universe...
A fairy tale is the most effective remedy for blues after freshly brewed coffee and whipped cream with cherry liqueur.
Magic is believing in yourself. And when you succeed, everything else succeeds.
You are already an adult, I know.
But never stop believing, okay?
Close your eyes and you will feel it all around you.
Children need a fairy tale
To become fearless
Adults also need - just like that,
just...
The main thing for me is not to stop being surprised. Before going to bed, I always give myself a mandate 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 it.
In life there should always be a place for a fairy tale ...
Maybe miracles do not happen at all, but a piece of something magical clearly exists in this world.
I understood one simple Truth - Miracles must be done with your own hands! If the Soul of a person yearns for a Miracle - make him this Miracle!!!
"SCARLET SAILS". Captain Grey.
Sitting on the edge of the cloud,
An angel nibbles on a cookie
And where the crumbs touch the earth,
Miracles happen there...
I came to the conclusion that magic is something that pushes, lifts and generally makes things out of nothing ... So, magic is just everywhere - both around us and in all other places too.
Miracles happen everywhere, you just need to have a sensitive heart, a receptive eye.
and you will see matter and spirit dancing together everywhere.
Osho "Beyond Enlightenment"
Bus, trolleybus or taxi.
The man is driving home.
After work.
Regular coat, briefcase or bag.
Thoughts in my head.
Unhappy, viscous, deaf.
And almost nothing makes me happy...
But you know what?
It's not about that at all.
It's about the fact that this person is actually a magician.
The real one.
And he can work real miracles.
And at home he has a magical cloak with twinkling stars gathering dust.
Only now he completely forgot about it.
In fact, 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 ordinary. Miracles always happen, they are all around us, you just need to be able to look.
Magic grows from deep inner silence...
Faith works miracles. Based on the principle of reciprocity.
We seem to know everything in the world.
Managed to change my mind about everything
But still like little children.
We believe in the impossible and wait...
Don't put in so much effort, the best things happen unexpectedly.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is a place on earth where nothing is impossible and everything becomes a reality. You just have to believe in it.
It is strange that we do not notice the miracles happening around us. The world has accumulated huge reserves of unperceived miracles ...
If you believe in what you can't see,
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 dawns on your roofs, inso much magic...
If you really dream, then do not deny yourself anything, right?
Meanwhile, life is full of miracles, and the most important magic is that we can create them ourselves! Especially since it's not that hard ;)
Some people can go their whole lives without noticing the little miracles that happen to us every day - those blessings that God sends us from heaven to make us smile, laugh or touch our souls, to gently draw us closer to to your side. Donna Vanleer - Christmas Shoes
Do you know what the problem of this world is? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problems, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.
Man seeks miracles.
If only he could see
How wonderful is the human heart...
It is easier to repeat a miracle than to explain it.
Frances Eliza Burnett. Secret garden.
Miracles always happen against all odds.
The more contrary, the more wonderful the miracle.
IN magical world everything is possible:
Fly like a bird, chat with an elf,
And flying to the moon is not so difficult.
After all, it’s not shameful for us to dream in a dream!
In the duel between reality and fantasy, force 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 don't believe that the world has a heart of its own, then you won't hear how it beats.
Be surprised, and the world will surely pleasantly surprise you again.
I am still in awe of 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 ancient legends, without those fairy tales that the planets whisper to each other at night.
Howard Lovecraft
You sit with your hands folded on your belly and wait for a miracle. And there is no miracle. But there is a belly.
Whichever path you choose, new adventures are always waiting for you!
There is magic that is learned from a 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 talk about the existence of dragons, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.
People interesting creatures. In the world full of wonders they managed to invent boredom.
A magician is not one who turns lead into gold, or causes a storm... A magician is one who can see the souls hidden in the body and make them bloom!...
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 something that 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. So, magic is just everywhere - both around us and in all other places too.
Magic is real world, whose limits the child's imagination can make boundless.
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 melt.
Miracles are not necessarily such great events, and they can happen in the most unexpected places. They can - in the sky, or on the battlefield, or in the kitchen in the middle of the night. You don’t even have to believe in miracles for a miracle to happen, 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. That is why miracles are best for the simplest things, the simpler the better; the less likely a miracle, the more miraculous it is.
Miracles are not necessarily grandiose, a miracle can happen in the most unexpected place; the most amazing miracles occur in the most ordinary surroundings.
Miracles happen every moment. Nothing else happens.
Not everyone manages to see what the stars are doing in anticipation of the 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.
Do not forget that miracles do not belong to you, but you belong to them. Even when we are talking about the miracles that you perform yourself. Max Fry
Miracles are happening all around us. We need to open our eyes to see them.
The magical 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 rejoice like a child in everything, and in little things, and important things. This is when you grew up, but still remained in your soul Small child who loves miracles and fairy tales. A true lover of magic is the kindest and friendliest creature on the planet.
Miracles happen because of the desire to believe that life is a miracle.
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 notification, without warning, without guarantees.
The modern reader needs magic to work according to the laws of physics. They want magic to work logically, they need causes and effects, they need the principle of conservation of matter and energy… They don’t want magic to work like magic… Lois McMaster Bujold. Answers
Only those who are able to believe in magic will gain unlimited power over reality...
True wisdom is the experience of a miracle. This feeling of a miracle is everywhere, wherever you go, in everything, whatever your gaze falls on: 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 a great wizard, for through it he can go beyond tradition and beyond the structure of what exists now, into a 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, therefore a common person does not notice these grains.
As long as I believe that fairy tales are real, the 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 something that 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. So, magic is just everywhere - both around us and in all other places too. Francis Burnett. secret garden
Miracles cannot be cited as evidence.
... miracles cannot be explained, they deteriorate from this ... Max Frei
Miracles do not actually violate the laws of nature.
K.S. Lewis talked about it, and it's an incredible revelation.
If we think that miracles are quite common, we will expect them.
And waiting for a miracle the right way get it.
There is a place for a miracle in the life of each of us, and sometimes these miracles happen in reality. Sometimes we find information that in such and such a year, in such and such a place and with such and such a person, an unheard-of miracle happened, and often many of us do not believe in this, since we, as adults, believe that miracles does not happen, but very in vain. It is logical that we do not believe in what is not visible with our own eyes, but you should believe in at least 10 truly amazing stories that are waiting for you next.
Saint Clelia Barbieri
Clelia Barbieri was born in Italy in 1874. She helped found the Minor Sisters of the Virgin Mary of Sorrows, a women's monastic congregation, and at 23 she was a very influential person. Unfortunately, she soon died of leukemia. However, before her death, Clelia told her followers: "Be brave, I am going to heaven, but I will always be with you, I will never leave you." A year after her death, while the sisters were singing high voice filled the church, merging with their voices. Since then, her voice has always echoed them in prayers. They say that Clelia's voice can still be heard within the walls of her church.
Martin de Porres
Martin de Porres was common man who worked like all the other poor and sick people of Peru. During his lifetime, many miracles were attributed to him: levitation, magical healings and the ability to stay in two places at the same time. For example, in 1956, a stone fell on a man's leg and crushed the bone. He developed gangrene and was diagnosed with hepatitis. Doctors were going to amputate her leg, but one woman prayed over her all night. The next day, when the bandages were removed, the leg was unrecognizable. The amputation was no longer necessary.
Michael Crow's heart failure
At 23 Michael Crowe suffered from a disease called acute myocarditis. His heart was only 10 percent functional, and it harmed the whole body. A transplant was needed, otherwise he would not have survived. However, doctors categorically ruled out the possibility of a transplant, considering it too risky. An hour after the decision of the doctors, his blood pressure rose, and a little later the left chamber of his heart began to work on its own. An MRI scan showed that there was not a single scar on the heart. Now the young man has already been discharged from the hospital and is completely healthy.
19 year old coma
In 2007, Jan Grzebski woke up from a 19-year-old coma to find that Poland was no longer under communist rule and that everyone now had mobile phone. But the most amazing thing is that he was able to survive such a long coma, because the doctors said that he would live no more than a few years. Yang credits his wife for taking care of him all these years and moving his body for several hours a day, thanks to which he avoided bedsores.
Miracle in Lanciano
In the 7th century AD, a monk in the Italian town of Lanciano questioned the doctrine of transubstantiation (the Catholic teaching that the wine and bread of believers are the blood and body of the Lord). Once, when he read the words of transubstantiation, wine and bread really turned into blood and meat. He told other monks about this, then this blood and meat were placed in a special container and are still a relic among Catholics.
mysterious voice
In 2005, Lynn Jennifer Grosbeck lost control and her car fell into the river, flying off the road. In the back seat was the one and a half year old daughter of a young woman. Lynn died instantly, and the girl hung upside down over ice water but was still alive. She spent 12 hours like this. Four policemen who arrived at the scene of the accident claim that they heard distant voice asking for help. Finding a little girl, they rescued her. No one understands how she could survive such an accident.
Church cures cancer
At 57, Greg Thomas found out he had terminal cancer. He lost his job and was already ready to say goodbye to his family, not hoping to get out. One day he was walking his dog and came across an abandoned church. Not knowing what to do with himself, he decided to restore this church and asked the city for financial assistance in exchange for him rebuilding the temple on his own. After the church was restored, it turned out that the disease receded.
Virgin Mary of Guadalupe
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary have occurred throughout world history, in 1531 she appeared to the Mexican peasant Juan Diego. The Mother of God told him to ask the bishop to build a temple. Diego went to the bishop, but he did not believe him and demanded proof. Then the Virgin Mary ordered Diego to pick roses on a barren hill and put them in his cloak. Having done so, he took these roses to the bishop, and, unfolding the cloak, saw there the image of the Virgin. This portrait has survived to this day in excellent condition.
Saint Joseph of Copertino
Saint Joseph of Copertino liked to levitate. It is said that he defied gravity more than seventy times, he had to restrain himself in order to stay on earth. Today he is considered the patron saint of aviators.
imperishable bodies
Catholics and Orthodox Greeks believe that the bodies of some saints do not decompose, or their decomposition is slowed down due to divine intervention. Embalmed or mummified bodies cannot be considered incorruptible, those who achieve this status are often put on display.
There are many in the world unusual places and breathtaking creations of nature. But sometimes, when a person undertakes to “improve” mother nature, this leads to very unexpected results and very strange, incredible miracles of nature appear. See for yourself!
8 PHOTOS
1. Darzava or "Gates of Hell" is a gas crater in Turkmenistan that has not stopped burning for 40 years. This "great" creation is the work of Soviet engineers who were looking for oil in the 70s of the last century. (Photo: Tormod Sandtorv/Flickr.com).
During the drilling of wells, part of the soil, under which a large gas field turned out, failed. Fearing toxic fumes, Soviet engineers did nothing smarter than setting the gas on fire to get rid of it. So it has been burning for four decades, never ceasing to horrify and remind how destructive people can be.
2. Fly Geyser or Fly Geyser. In fact, this is a permanent thermal spring, which again appeared due to human intervention. In 1916, drilling work was carried out in that place, and in the 60s The groundwater with mineral inclusions from wells erupted to the surface, creating this amazing creation. (Photo: Ken Lund/Flickr.com). 
3. The waters of Rio Tinto in Spanish Andalusia are the color of blood. This water has a pH of 2, which makes it almost impossible for most of the organisms that exist on Earth to live in it. In fact, this river is poisonous. But why, you ask? The thing is that for centuries copper, silver, gold and other minerals were mined in this region, as a result of which the river was polluted. The red color of its waters is due to copper, which is contained in it in large quantities. (Photo: RioTinto2006/WikimediaCommons). 
4. The Blue Lagoon in Iceland is a large pool filled with salty geothermal water. The warm lagoon appeared thanks to human activity, namely, the nearby Svartsengi geothermal power plant, which needed somewhere to store excess pumped water. The Blue Lagoon is close to Iceland's international airport and is one of the island's biggest tourist attractions. It is believed that its highly mineralized water has a beneficial effect on the skin. (Photo: Michelle Lee / Flickr.com). 
5. Emerald Lake in Szczecin (Poland) gets its name from the color. The emerald shade of the water is due to the high content of calcium carbonate, which is formed as a result of the breakdown of calcite. The lake is located right on the site of an ancient mine of chalk and marl. During mining, on July 16, 1925, the miners reached a layer of sand, from which water began to ooze. The mine was partially flooded, and the remains of mining equipment can still be found at the bottom of the lake. Fortunately, all the workers managed to escape during the flood. (Photo: Tomasz Przywecki/Flickr.com). 
6. This huge yellow mountain is not the beginning of the construction of the pyramid, but a dump formed as a result of the extraction of oil sands. The by-product of this process is sulfur, which miners don't quite know what to do with. Syncrude employees came up with a brilliant idea: to make an unusual, but very attractive pyramid out of sulfur. (Photo: Gord McKenna/Flickr.com). 
7. Desert in the middle of Europe? The Błędowska Desert is a huge area of floating sands, covering an area of 33 square kilometers (and worst of times 150 square kilometers), which lies on the border of the Silesian Upland and the Father's Plateau in Poland. It was formed as a result of human activities, including due to deforestation and the development of the mining industry and metallurgy. Level ground water there fell so low that the plants stopped growing. (Photo: Dominique Cappronnier/Flickr.com). 
8. These unusual, colorful lakes are right in the middle of the mountains in US state Utah is the so-called evaporation tanks. They are used to gradually evaporate water during the production of potash (potassium carbonate), which is used today mainly in the production of fertilizers. (Photo: Doc Searls/Flickr.com).
