{"id":1894,"date":"2016-04-03T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2016-03-29T20:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:36:58","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"62u65\" data-offset-key=\"d2p2s-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d2p2s-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d2p2s-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;They take a spiritual book, sit comfortably, and begin reading. \u201cOh, I profited from that,\u201d they say. It would be better to say, \u201cI enjoyed myself, I spent my time pleasantly.\u201d But this is not profit. We profit when we understand what we read, when we censure ourselves and discipline ourselves by applying it: \u201cWhat does this mean? Where do I stand in relation to this spiritual truth? What must I do now?\u201d After all, the more we learn, the more responsibility we have to live up to what we have learned. I am not saying that we should not read so that we can plead ignorance and therefore be free of responsibility, for this is a cunning deception; I am saying that we should not read merely to pass our time pleasantly.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"62u65\" data-offset-key=\"21jir-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"21jir-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"21jir-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Paisios in &#8216;Spiritual Awakening&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"62u65\" data-offset-key=\"4ngv6-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"62u65\" data-offset-key=\"4ngv6-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"62u65\" data-offset-key=\"4ngv6-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ElderPaisos2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1680\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ElderPaisos2-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"ElderPaisos2\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ElderPaisos2-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ElderPaisos2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They take a spiritual book, sit comfortably, and begin reading. \u201cOh, I profited from that,\u201d they say. It would be better to say, \u201cI enjoyed myself, I spent my time [&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-1894","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\/1894","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=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}