{"id":5696,"date":"2018-11-04T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:42:05","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-relations-with-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5696","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Relations with Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is very helpful to be simple in our relations with others, to always have good thoughts about them, and to not lake everybody too seriously. One should avoid discussions which are presumably held for spiritual improvement, but only bring headaches instead. One shouldn\u2019t expect spiritual understanding from people who don\u2019t believe in God. It\u2019s better if one simply prays for them that (God will forgive them and enlighten them. One should speak the language of each person (at that person\u2019s level), and not reveal the great truths that he believes and experiences, because they will not understand him, as he speaks on another frequency and a different wavelength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Family Life\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5697\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/0486-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/0486-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/0486.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is very helpful to be simple in our relations with others, to always have good thoughts about them, and to not lake everybody too seriously. One should avoid discussions [&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-5696","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\/5696","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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5698,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/5698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}