When you read many books about spirituality and accept them, you penetrate these ideas, you begin to grow spiritually.
But sometimes this spirituality does not extend to your daily life, does not reach small everyday things.
Today, when I returned to my car in the parking lot of the shopping center, I found that the owner of the next car …
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I myself am a Russian-speaking Kazakh.
I was born in the Russian city of Leninsk (Baikonur), studied at the Russian school, studied in Russian at the university, my work was mostly in the Russian-speaking environment.
I still think and speak better in Russian.
Personally, it would be beneficial for me that in Kazakhstan everyone would speak Russian and nothing would …
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Civilization of the country is the laborious and tedious work of every citizen.
It is necessary, not being lazy, every time to take out the trash to the urn, not to spit on the ground, not to be rude to others, smile to surrounding people, not block the road with your car, not make noise in crowded places, …
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The transition of the Kazakh alphabet to the Latin alphabet excited all of our society. Citizens actively joined in its discussion. Now there are already several variants of the alphabet on the Internet. Analyzing almost all of them, I came to the conclusion that the dispute is only about a few letters that convey Kazakh specific sounds. The …
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It seems to me that sane religious people in the 21st century tolerate such “sacred phenomena” as “self-igniting” fire in a lamp, “myrrh-streaming” icons, “holy” water, etc.
They understand that all these phenomena have a prosaic explanation, not without human touch behind the scenes. But they look at it with a wise smile, as if …
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In a secular, democratic state, which we call ourselves, religion is separated from the state, citizens have freedom of religion, all faiths are equal.
These are fundamental principles.
But in everyday life, the boundary between what is permitted and forbidden to draw is very difficult. It is often not prescribed in laws, but exists …
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Abroad, the most striking difference is the relationship between parents and children.
Our former fellow citizens (I do not know which republics they are from, but they speak Russian) beat their children, shout at them, humiliate them in front of people. I have never seen such scenes from anyone else. Even among representatives of poor African …
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A little bit about stupid superstitions.
Everyone knows our Kazakh belief in the name of “koz tiedi” or in Russian – the evil eye.
Modern educated people still believe in this nonsense. They hide from the prying eyes of their newborns for up to 40 days, smear specks on the foreheads, cling a pin …
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When a lot of people sit in the same boat, it is important to keep balance. It is necessary that the majority sits in the center. In this way the boat will be more stable.
It is also important to remain calm and objective in such a boat.…
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