{"id":5322,"date":"2018-08-22T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2018-08-19T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:26:35","slug":"elder-joseph-the-hesychast-on-the-whole-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5322","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph the Hesychast on the Whole Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo that is why there is such a big difference among the people and monks that you see. And that is why first and foremost you must \u201cknow thyself.\u201d That is, know who you really are in truth, and not what you imagine you are. With this knowledge you become the wisest man. With this kind of awareness, you reach humility and receive grace from the Lord. However, if you don\u2019t obtain self-knowledge, but consider only your toil, know that you will always remain far from the path. The prophet does not say, \u201cBehold, O Lord, my toil,\u201d but says, \u201cBehold my humility and my toil.\u201d Toil is for the body, and humility is for the soul. Moreover, the two together, toil and humility, are for the whole man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Monastic Wisdom\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5323\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/garden_terraces_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/garden_terraces_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/garden_terraces_2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/garden_terraces_2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/garden_terraces_2-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo that is why there is such a big difference among the people and monks that you see. And that is why first and foremost you must \u201cknow thyself.\u201d That [&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-5322","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\/5322","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=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}