{"id":8248,"date":"2020-05-17T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:14:50","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8248","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe goal is to anticipate it and not come to the point of anger. Even when you\u2019re warming milk, if you don\u2019t remove it from the heat on time, it will overheat and spill over.\u00a0 By being attentive at all times: keep watch over yourself and contain your anger, so that the passion will not become rooted in you for, if it does, even if you later should wish to cut it away with an axe, it will continue to sprout suckers.\u00a0 Remember what David said, \u201cI made haste, and delayed not to keep Thy commandments,\u201d1 Recall the monk who would make the sign of the cross upon leaving his cell and say, \u201cGod, protect me from temmptations.\u201d He was ready to confront any temptation. It was as if he was on guard-duty. He was anticipating the temptation and was ready to defend himself. And if some Brother behaved improperly to him, he was ready to address him with meekness and humility. You, too, can do the same\u2026It seems that you do not have much patience, which is why you reach a certain point and then you have an\u00a0 outburst. You need a little more &#8230; patience. Before speaking out, say the Jesus Prayer a few times\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Passions and Virtues&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8249\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6123309599_a4a2163668_b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6123309599_a4a2163668_b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6123309599_a4a2163668_b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6123309599_a4a2163668_b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe goal is to anticipate it and not come to the point of anger. Even when you\u2019re warming milk, if you don\u2019t remove it from the heat on time, it [&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-8248","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\/8248","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=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}