I am back from a short Moscow trip with some images which I took for you.
The quality of images is not that good, but I think you will get an impression of how it is like in Moscow in November – cold, pretty nasty and windy, but still enjoyable 
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It was getting dark rather early, and I was mostly outside during late afternoon, therefore most of the images look like taken at night. In fact it was a daytime (from 3 till 6 p.m.).
LOVE; axinia
Materialism is our glittering Reality. Especially now, then the Christmas time is coming, the amount of that glitter increases, as if accumulating material riches was the message of Christ. The magic of Matter is powerful. The human/physical part of our being is longing for comfort and beauty, sensual satisfaction and delight…We dive into the fascination of matter and its hypnotizing charm.
But the Matter is not all we consist of. Another powerful part of us is the Spirit (I don’t mean the soul here though)
For a spiritual person is not easy to find the balance between the two. While in a mediation I dwell in the Realm of a Spirit and realize the tremendous power and beauty of it, it is the magic of materialism that wants to take over in my daily life, for instance in a form of the pretty Vienna City with its imperial style and flavour of coffee…
Is it possible to have both, to enjoy the Materialism and Spirituality?
Since several years I am trying to play a game and make these two happily coexist. When you meet me first, you might say I am quite successful in that (I keep up a glamour look and spend much time in restaurants and cafes). An yet it feels like a game, because all the time I am aware of the silent completion between the two. The famous dualism is always there…
Honestly, I am in owe of the black magical power of Materialism. Since last 2 decades I have been watching Materialism taking over in two greatest spiritual nations like Indian and Russian. Within no time (historically seen) the value system crashed down and many people had to undergo a wired transformation of their attitudes to life and themselves. (more…)
When the cold time is coming, I dress myself warm and enjoy the cold. If I am not dressed warm enough, I naturally freeze At this moments all possible people start asking me: “how it is possible that you are freezing, you are RUSSIAN!” And this is, really, sounds the too silly to me. Why should Russians have different body temperature? Because they live in “cold climate”? Science say that it is either te muscles or the fat that keeps the body warm. But not being originally from Russia
Russians indeed know how to keep warm in the cold winter (albite the spring and the summer are pretty cold as well!) and the 2 main reasons are:
1.The central heating system (thanks God for the natural resources) works very well. People are not used to save money on heating (at least it was in my childhood) because it costs almost nothing.
2.The most logical thing: dress up yourself warm! Interestingly, this is not that logical for my Western friends. I see people freezing and being dressed rather insufficient. Then, because of saving money obsession, many do not heat up their homes properly. They freeze inside, they freeze outside. No wonder the hearts get closed 
A freezing person is unlucky to feel happy I think. (more…)
Do you really want money? - if even now the answer is ” yes” then you must be already a millionier.
The truth is, only a tiny percent of mankind really wants money and these are the same people who possess great material riches. I talked to some people who know personally the so called Russian oligarchs (people who became incredibly rich and influential in a short time) – they say that it is the love for money as object that has driven them all to becoming so rich.
The truth is that an average citizen of any country is not really interested in money. Sure, no one would mind comforts and other benefits that money brings with. However it is a very seldom case that someone is interested in possessing huge sums of money as such. And the one who are obsessed with the idea usually get it!
Why this? (more…)
Even if you are an Angel, there will always be someone who doesn’t like the sound of your wings rustling….
I don’t know whose sentence is it (found on Russian Internet), but the phrase stroke me with its beauty and truth.
May be because some people prefer the darker side of life, sometimes they are irritated by too much of light and goodness. Sometimes I have to experience it -seldom but still. Every time a surprise!
LOVE, axinia
(image by me)
Russians are proud of their beautiful women (read more about it here).
This time on my trip to Moscow I thought of making a post about typical Russian female faces and realised that … “Matröshkas” represent it the best!
Here is a small collection of images that reflect the beauty of the Russian female soul…
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(Anton Krotov with the map showing his and his wisemen’ and miles)
I got hooked on the topic since I learned about The Free Travel – not because I want to travel by hitchhiking but because the wisdom which people gain out of such experiences is so beautiful and true… One of the Gurus of of the subject in Russia is Anton Krotov, a founder of The Academy of Free Travel. He is not only a passionate traveller, but a wise man and an exellent writer of handbooks. A short biographical note: Anton is born 1976, not married, a Muslim.
In a free from travelling time Anton writes books (there are already over 30 books in Russian) and gives lectures. People often ask him same questions and these are his answers to the most common ones:
WHY TRAVEL?
The outside world is very big, but having enough persistence you can eventually reach every corner of it.f you want to travel, don’t put off your intention. Don’t wait till you get much money, take up an important post or retire on a pension and have a lot of spare time. In ten years you won’t have so much spare time as you have today, and in twenty years it’ll become very scarce. Though in future you may earn more money than you do now, the value of your worktime will also increase and you won’t be able to afford a half-year vacation (because of increased cost of one working hour). Besides, you may eventually get children, grand- and grand-grandchildren, needing to be looked after.
HOW MUCH MONEY DOES ONE HAVE TO TAKE FOR A TRAVEL?
Normally a person starts travelling with a certain amount of money. While travelling he/she spends the money and finally keeps travelling without it. One should not be afraid of that and wait for the “X-hour”, one need not keep some money for ”just in case”. When all your money will is being spent for the sake of supporting the surrounding economy (you will spend it or it will be stolen) and you will have nothing left – you will suddenly find yourself in a situation of Communism! All that you have been buying before – you will get all that for free, and complete strangers will offer you money and food even without you aksing for that. And you will not loose your weight and your cloth size will remain the same. (more…)
(image by me)
I love friends. Friends are fabulous, great, gorgeous and absolutely necessary.
I make frieds pretty fast and for me tt is often sufficient to have a sincere talk once to become friends forever.
However there is a small unpleasant problem in having friends in many different places – the physical separation. When I meet a good friend, the time flies so fast and it feels like there are millions of thing we want to do, to discuss, to experience together… And then for some obvious reason (leaving for another country, end of holidays, moving homes) we have to part…that feels horrible! (more…)
India has definitely something very very special about its spirit and people, something that makes me visit this magic land every year… There are 1000 things I love about India, but each time I open new petals on its majestic flower.
These are the things which I enjoyed every time and particularly during my last visit to India a week ago.
1. The Indian satisfaction.
Indians seem to be generally very satisfied souls – they themselves may not see it this way, but compared to the stressed and frustrated westerners they are just the embodiment of peace! May be it comes from the belief in Karma – it makes probably a huge difference is one knows there is only one life to accomplish or one knows there have been many and there are many to come – that surely releases from the stress (consciously or unconsciously). Another thing is the heat – when it is too hot, people just can not worry much, I guess – the heat makes one really slower and relaxter (compared to cold which makes one tough).
The satisfaction has also another side of a coin that basically Indians (again compared to the Westerners) do not have much drive to do things, to work on all sorts of projects, to travel, to move around, to get inspired and change their lives easily. At least those who do not immigrate
2. Going by riksha
Despite polluted air and horrible traffic, going by riksha is a big enjoyment to me and I really miss that comfortably fast mean of transport back in Europe. In fact, I miss it a lot – the possibility to catch a riksha so easily and get inside and drive with the wind blowing around… Unlike the sophisticated taxi.
3. Beauty and colours!!
Sure thing, that is what you can expect from me I adore the sense of colours Indians have (which again would be called a kitsch in the “sophisticated” West) – every woman in a sari I saw I wanted to shoot a photo of, every flower was a total delight, in fact every clourful thing made me feel like a child in a magic candy shop….that was very special. (more…)
Sorry for those readers who don`t know Russian, but I really have to post this absolutely brilliant video:
it is a new propaganda clip which was forbidden because of being “too negative” – to me it is the best example of the a HARD TRUTH about us all, especially about the youth.
To me it seems to be highly motivating – it burns the heart to start DOING something for my country.
BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE ELSE WHO WOULD DO IT INSTEAD OF ME.
Great, simply great! It reminds me of the Matrix film…
I know it is propaganda, but damn it…it is so inspiring!!!
LOVE, axinia
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