{"id":5137,"date":"2018-07-22T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:27:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:27:59","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-dead-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"Elder St.\u00a0 Paisios on Dead Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some worldly people read newspapers, others romantic literature or an adventure novel, still others watch a football game at the stadium and pass their lime. The same thing is done by some people who read spiritual books. They may spend the whole night reading spiritual books with great intensity and be content. They like a spiritual book, sit comfortably, and begin reading. &#8216;Oh, I profited from that,\u201d they say. It would be better &#8216;I enjoyed myself, I spent my time pleasantly.\u201d But this is not profit.\u00a0 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, ilie more we learn, the more responsibility we have to live up to what we have learned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Spiritual Awakening&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5138\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3295-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3295-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3295.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some worldly people read newspapers, others romantic literature or an adventure novel, still others watch a football game at the stadium and pass their lime. The same thing is done [&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-5137","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\/5137","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=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}