{"id":6154,"date":"2019-02-20T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6154"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:19:23","slug":"elder-joseph-the-hesychast-on-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6154","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere is your humility when you feel and say that everyone wrongs you and that only you are good? Humility is, when the other person is at fault, for us to do a metanoia to him saying, \u201cForgive me, my brother, I am sorry!\u201d before he has time to seek forgiveness. This should not seem difficult and burdensome to you. It is nothing in comparison to what Christ the Master did for us. Before the angels He stooped down and did a metanoia from heaven to earth; \u201cHe bowed the heavens and came down\u201d \u2014 God to men! Whereas you turn the world upside-down so that you don\u2019t say one \u201csorry\u201d! So then, where is your humility? When you humble yourself, everyone will seem saintly to you; when you are proud, everyone will seem bothersome and bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Monastic Wisdom\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6155\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/athos-monks-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/athos-monks-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/athos-monks.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere is your humility when you feel and say that everyone wrongs you and that only you are good? Humility is, when the other person is at fault, for us [&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-6154","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\/6154","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=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}