{"id":6790,"date":"2019-06-17T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2019-06-16T20:27:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:27:23","slug":"elder-st-paisius-on-worldly-attachments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6790","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisius on Worldly Attachments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"7s6fm\" data-offset-key=\"3i0g-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3i0g-0-0\">&#8220;Ingratitude and greed are evils. A person that is possessed by material things is always possessed by worries and anxiety. He trembles at the thought that he may lose both his belongings and his soul&#8230;People\u2019s lives are sheer misery because they do not keep things simple. Most of the conveniences we have cause difficulties. Those who live in the world often drown in abundance. They have filled their lives with gadgets and conveniences and have only succeeded in making their lives difficult. As long as we do not simplify things, even one convenience will give birth to a host of difficulties.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"7s6fm\" data-offset-key=\"mdgr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"mdgr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"mdgr-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;With Pain and Love&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"mdgr-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6791\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0553-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0553-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0553.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"mdgr-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ingratitude and greed are evils. A person that is possessed by material things is always possessed by worries and anxiety. He trembles at the thought that he may lose both [&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-6790","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\/6790","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=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}