{"id":4351,"date":"2018-02-03T12:09:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2018-02-03T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T17:09:53","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-modern-materialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4351","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Paisios on Modern Materialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople today have made their lives difficult, because they are not satisfied with a few things, but are constantly chasing after more and more material goods. But those who would like to live a genuine spiritual life must first of all be satisfied with a few things. When their life is simplified, without too many concerns and nuisances, not only will they be liberated from the worldly spirit, they will also have plenty of time available for spiritual things. Otherwise, they will tire themselves out by trying to follow the fashion of the times; they will lose their serenity and will gain only great anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Family Life&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4352\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/35-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/35-286x300.jpg 286w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/35.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople today have made their lives difficult, because they are not satisfied with a few things, but are constantly chasing after more and more material goods. But those who would [&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-4351","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\/4351","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=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}