{"id":6171,"date":"2019-02-23T12:19:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2019-02-07T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:20:07","slug":"st-nikolai-velimirovich-on-the-presence-of-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6171","title":{"rendered":"St. Nikolai Velimirovich on the Presence of Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 we are neither alone in this world nor destined for it. Whether I wander in the streets of London or stand in the green fields outside, I have always the same feeling of human loneliness and helplessness on one side, and the company of some overwhelming and invisible powers on the other. I say the feeling and not thought, because I feel they touch me and I am unhappy because I cannot touch them. They seem to be like shadows, and still I am sure they are greater realities than I am. My life is dependent on theirs and their lives are connected with, but not dependent on, my life. My being is quite transparent to these higher intelligences, while their beings I can feel only in the most lucid moments of my life. The dreamy nature around me is pervaded by them, and my own life, I feel, is pervaded by them also. In some way they dis-individualize me, but on the other hand they give me strength, light and inspiration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Religious Spirit of the Slavs&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mount-athos-monasteries-exterior-panagiotis-karousos-photography-22-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mount-athos-monasteries-exterior-panagiotis-karousos-photography-22-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mount-athos-monasteries-exterior-panagiotis-karousos-photography-22-681x1024.jpg 681w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mount-athos-monasteries-exterior-panagiotis-karousos-photography-22.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 we are neither alone in this world nor destined for it. Whether I wander in the streets of London or stand in the green fields outside, I have always [&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-6171","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\/6171","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=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}