{"id":10230,"date":"2021-08-29T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T13:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10230"},"modified":"2021-08-14T21:40:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T01:40:33","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-29-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10230","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Whatever prevents us from facing reality is a threat to our spiritual well-being. If we only accept \u2018facts\u2019 that we agree with, then we are choosing to blind ourselves to the reality in which we live. If our passions govern how we react to things, we are allowing our passions to blind us to reality because in our passions, we tend to see and hear only what we want to see and hear.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr Ted Bobosh in \u2018Fraternalized Meditations\u2019 blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10231\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/background-landscapes-desert-sand-3d-model-low-poly-max-obj-mtl-fbx-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/background-landscapes-desert-sand-3d-model-low-poly-max-obj-mtl-fbx-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/background-landscapes-desert-sand-3d-model-low-poly-max-obj-mtl-fbx-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/background-landscapes-desert-sand-3d-model-low-poly-max-obj-mtl-fbx-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/background-landscapes-desert-sand-3d-model-low-poly-max-obj-mtl-fbx.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhatever prevents us from facing reality is a threat to our spiritual well-being. If we only accept \u2018facts\u2019 that we agree with, then we are choosing to blind ourselves to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","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=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10232,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions\/10232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}