{"id":16073,"date":"2025-11-02T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16073"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:35:43","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-november-2-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16073","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for November 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSpiritual life does not mean being in the clouds while saying the Jesus Prayer or going through the various motions. It means discovering the laws of this spiritual life as they apply to one\u2019s own position, one\u2019s situation. This comes over the years by attentive reading of the Holy Fathers with a notebook, writing down those passages which seem most significant to us, studying them, finding how they apply to us, and, if need be, revising earlier views of them as we get a little deeper into them, finding what one Father says about something, what a second Father says about the same thing, and so on.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr Seraphim Rose+, \u2018On the Mind of the\u00a0Fathers\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16074\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04fa37142f88383611c2987c76630b3c-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04fa37142f88383611c2987c76630b3c-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04fa37142f88383611c2987c76630b3c-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/04fa37142f88383611c2987c76630b3c-1024x799.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSpiritual life does not mean being in the clouds while saying the Jesus Prayer or going through the various motions. It means discovering the laws of this spiritual life as [&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-16073","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\/16073","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=16073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16075,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions\/16075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}