{"id":4017,"date":"2017-12-02T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T16:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2017-12-02T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T22:54:10","slug":"elder-st-paisios-putting-ourselves-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4017","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Paisios:  Putting Ourselves in Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f2cqb\" data-offset-key=\"5j3vi-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5j3vi-0-0\">&#8220;Consider things from a broad perspective. Think of the other\u2019s past: what opportunities was he given to cultivate himself? Then consider the opportunities you were given that you did not take advantage of. This is how you will be moved by the gifts granted you by God and you will glorify God for these gifts, and be humbled by not having taken full advantage of them. At the same time, you will feel pain and love for the other person who did not have the opportunities you had had and you will pray for him from your heart.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f2cqb\" data-offset-key=\"bvsd7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bvsd7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bvsd7-0-0\">&#8211; &#8220;Passions and Virtues&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"bvsd7-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4018\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mount_Athos_by_cod_gabriel_25-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mount_Athos_by_cod_gabriel_25-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mount_Athos_by_cod_gabriel_25-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mount_Athos_by_cod_gabriel_25-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mount_Athos_by_cod_gabriel_25-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Consider things from a broad perspective. Think of the other\u2019s past: what opportunities was he given to cultivate himself? Then consider the opportunities you were given that you did not [&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-4017","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\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}