{"id":3972,"date":"2017-12-02T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:09:36","slug":"elder-haralambos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3972","title":{"rendered":"Elder Haralambos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"et5nj\" data-offset-key=\"6p8vd-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6p8vd-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6p8vd-0-0\">&#8220;The first lesson is to say the prayer orally and indeed, as much as we can, clearly and quickly. However, be careful. As we\u2019re saying the prayer, Satan comes and bombards our minds with a whole lot of thoughts and fantasies. When the beginner says the prayer with the mind, Satan\u2019s bombarding drowns out the prayer. If, however, you say it verbally and quickly, Satan can\u2019t easily distract you from the prayer with a host of thoughts. No matter how much the mind forsakes the meaning of the prayer, we have the ear. The ear hears what the mouth is saying, whether it likes it or not.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"et5nj\" data-offset-key=\"crfrg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"crfrg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"crfrg-0-0\">&#8211; &#8216;Teacher of Noetic Prayer&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"crfrg-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3973\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haralombos-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haralombos-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haralombos.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first lesson is to say the prayer orally and indeed, as much as we can, clearly and quickly. However, be careful. As we\u2019re saying the prayer, Satan comes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}