Considering that you will find God's love in consolation feelings, you aren't seeking God,but yourself,your own consolation, and you go round the true way of suffering that leeds to Him, because you feel lost without this consolation. (Macarie of Optina)

God foretold that He would forgive our sins if we seek forgiveness, but not that we would live tomorrow (Varsanufie of Optina)

The shortest way to Jesus is to carry the other's one burden (Ambrozie of Optina)


The human constience is like an alarm clock. If it rings, you wake up suddenly, knowing that you have to go and do your work, and after, you will hear it always. But if you do not wake up, several days, sayng that you will do so later, then you will stop hearing the alarm clock. (Iosif of Optina)

Ravens in the mist

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more


Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;
This it is, and nothing more ...

(Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven - I st part )

Mechanical Masters - in Black and White

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.


Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal


For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

(Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes)

The Jewish Cemetery

Waiting for the Train

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What would I do with www.pic2res.com if I'd own it...

Happiness

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let the light shine upon us

Industrial Cluj Napoca

When steel and concrete collide,
the results are sometimes magnificent, and other times they are purely spectacular.

Well... only if you see the good side.

Waiting for the rain - Ampoita, Trascau Mts., Romania

Situated only 10 km (6 miles) from Alba Iulia, the Ampoita valley is a heaven for mountain climbers and trekkers as well. The path trough the mountains goes along the course of Ampoita river. The river carved this beautiful landscape trough the calcareous rock and brought with it sediments in which trees and plants caught root. Milions of years of ecological process resulted in this natural wonder that we can enjoy, unfortunately, just for some decades..



...and then, was rain. Clouds started forming over the valley. Mountain clouds, form quickly and vanish as well. The weather is very unpredictable because of the termic inversions and watercourse airflows. It's always good to have a raincoat or a tent...



...and boots. You'll find it irresistible not to climb on the rocks. This will be of great help when you climb. A rope is unnecessary because the terrain permits you to reach the summit of the cliff using just your hands and feet. It's a bit tricky but when you get there, you know it was worth doing it. Up there, you feel you can touch the sky. Magnificent I tell you, truly magnificent

Well well.. I got up here. But does anybody here how do I get down?

Crows Park - Alba Iulia, Romania

Moon Rainbow - Alba Iulia, Romania

I took this picture when I was going home at about 00:50. It was a nice evening, pretty calm, no wind just some clouds in the sky. When I gazed at the moon I saw that it was completely surrounded by a wonderful rainbow. But in the time that I prepared my camera the clouds passed away and I managed to capture only a part of the rainbow. Why did it appear? I think it was the clouds under the moon that made this strange phenomena possible. They were thin alto-stratus clouds and the water particles which formed them, formed this rainbow also. Too bad I didn't had a better camera or just a tripod

Fire - Alba Iulia, Trascau Mts., Romania

Fire. One of the essential elements. Man's existence has always been related to fire. No matter what was lit to give heat,wood, leaves, coal, when a flame aroused, it represented power. Power to survive, power to forge metal, or just to prepare a hot meal. This element as it is destructive it is creative. Like one of the greatest Romanian poets wrote: "Where does the Heaven get it's light? - I know: from the flames of Hell"(Lucian Blaga- Heaven's Light), fire is a creative motive found everywhere in ancient and modern civilizations. Also it is tougth that fire has the ability to purify: nature or man can become pure trough fire - catharsis. You can say that fire is the most important factor that led to human progress. Powerful, destructive, creative and all mighty , fire has a pretty common enemy: water.....

Mistery - Ighis Lake, Medias, Romania

Wonderful sky you might say, but this lake's story lays underwater. Al dough the lake is man-made (I was standing on the dam when I took the picture), in it live strange species of fish and snakes. what's so particular about this creatures is their unusual size. Fishermen caught there some sheat fish measuring in length about 2-2.5 meters(6-8 feet). I didn't believe that until I saw with my own eyes one of this "monsters". It was about 1.5 meters (5 feet)long and weight about 70 kg(140 lbs). Some professional divers went there to explore the lake but they didn't got far and they came back to the surface, packed their equipment and went home saying that they never seen such big snakes or fishes. Locals continued the story and told others that the divers also saw cranes and coffins and all sorts of crazy stuff down there. what is important is that the lake is used by the children in the summer to swim and in the winter to skate and is vital for some fishermen who make their living by selling the "monsters" caught in the Ighis

Waves - Alba Iulia, Romania

Waves of light at midnight in Alba Iulia. It's just Christmas lighting. Well this is just about what any drunk would see after a couple of six-packs. I wasn't drunk I tell you.. it's the camera's fault these pictures ended like this. Well maybe I was a little dizzy, but this proves that there is a bit of art in anyone of us.. drunk or cunning

Musica - Alba Iulia, Romania

Later that evening all the "camera" would see was music.. music was everywhere: in the trees, in the cars, in the hard-cold pavement(witch it was pretty attached to)and for this picture it barely managed to open an eye and immortalize the .. music

Empty space - Alba Iulia, Romania

When you're standing and waiting for the time to just.. pass away, it's incredible! One moment you fell like going home and the next you wish you can stay there forever. It's a wonderful feeling of being just you alone on the streets, others may call it loneliness, but you know it's just a feeling you can't replace. Each moment has it's unique significance whether we realize it or not. Being able to enjoy even the most simple and annoying situations is in my opinion being able to live

Morning - Oasa, Parang Mts., Romania

An early walk trough the everlasting green forests of Oasa in a Sunday morning. With the sun on your face it's interesting to walk on a road that snakes through the forest for the first time and not knowing what to expect about the landscape after the corner. The fresh air and the rising mist create those pure tiny water drops that wash away all the dirt, the grime, the sin in nature and the human being. Quite unique

Devil's Claws - Ampoita, Trascau Mts., Romania

It is thought that under these massive calcareous stones lays hidden an old monastery that watches over an entry that leads straight to hell. Along centuries many found death trying to climb on top of this stones. Others trying to find the secret cave. Villagers talk about a young boy who was found lying dead in the dirt and he looked as dough someone, something pulled him into the ground. They say he was half buried in the dirt and his eyes expressed an untold extreme fear, as his soul was riped from his young body. They say that when you're in that place, near the stones, just thinking at the devil, makes him come closer to our world

Smoke on water - Oasa, Parang Mts., Romania

Sunset - Dealu Mare, Apuseni Mts., Romania