{"id":4210,"date":"2018-01-11T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:19:16","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-wordly-emptiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Paisios on Wordly Emptiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"a48m\" data-offset-key=\"3ocer-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3ocer-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3ocer-0-0\">&#8220;When one does not believe in the other life, he seeks to know this world, to enjoy in this life one thing and then another and another &#8230; but in the end what comes of it? He always has a nagging emptiness inside. However, if he believes in God, he comes to know God; God knows him, and then he feels fulfilled within.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"a48m\" data-offset-key=\"4mub1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4mub1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4mub1-0-0\">&#8211; &#8216;Passions and Virtues&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"4mub1-0-0\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4211\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4211\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4211\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/x-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/x-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/x.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance, Great Lavra Monastery, Mount Athos, Halkidiki, Greece<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When one does not believe in the other life, he seeks to know this world, to enjoy in this life one thing and then another and another &#8230; but in [&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-4210","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\/4210","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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}