{"id":10153,"date":"2021-08-22T12:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2021-08-01T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T12:52:32","slug":"peter-mamonov-on-what-really-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10153","title":{"rendered":"Peter Mamonov+ on What Really Matters\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me, the Lord is the constant joy of His presence. That\u2019s how I want to live; it\u2019s so good\u2014strong, close\u2026 And if I\u2019m in sin, then I immediately feel that I\u2019m alone, that this day has passed me by. It\u2019s very simple: With God is life; without God is death.<\/p>\n

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I lay down in a coffin in \u201cThe Island.\u201d [movie]\u00a0 It\u2019s an austere thing. Four walls and a lid\u2014no Gospel, no icons, nothing. What will we lie down with? What have I gathered? I know how to record, I can drive a car, I know how to use certain things. But I don\u2019t know how to forgive, how not to get annoyed, how to give without regretting it. Everything that will be useful in eternity, everything that I can\u2019t touch\u2014I don\u2019t know how. But I\u2019ve learned a thousand unnecessary things during this life.<\/p>\n

What to do? Peel myself off slowly. Like a band-aid from a wound, tear it off slowly. The Lord gave me a big house. I like it\u2014I have a bedroom, and an office, but I\u2019ll have to leave all this. What a pity! 4,000 selected vinyl records\u2014what a pity! And then I see that it\u2019s not such a pity over time. I\u2019m glad to see the beginnings of detachment in myself. This is what we should spend our life doing\u2014preparing for eternity.<\/p>\n

– Quotes from Stanislav Minakov article on the late actor<\/p>\n

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For me, the Lord is the constant joy of His presence. That\u2019s how I want to live; it\u2019s so good\u2014strong, close\u2026 And if I\u2019m in sin, then I immediately feel […]<\/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-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10155,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions\/10155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}