{"id":15663,"date":"2021-02-10T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=15663"},"modified":"2021-02-06T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:14:44","slug":"head-to-the-heart-prayers-poems-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/featured\/head-to-the-heart-prayers-poems-other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Head to the Heart &#8211; Prayers, Poems &#038; Other Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-1-1 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Descending from the Head to the Heart - Prayers Poems &amp; Parables\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/509261444?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cYou must descend from&nbsp;<\/em><em>your head into your heart.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>At present, your thoughts of God&nbsp;<\/em><em>are in your head.&nbsp; And God himself is,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>as it were, outside you, and&nbsp;<\/em><em>so your prayer and other spiritual exercises&nbsp;<\/em><em>remain exterior.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Whilst you are still in your head,&nbsp;<\/em><em>thoughts will not easily be subdued but&nbsp;<\/em><em>will always be whirling about, like snow&nbsp;<\/em><em>in winter or&nbsp;<\/em><em>clouds of mosquitos in summer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~ St. Theophan the Recluse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Theophan the Recluse (1815 &#8211; 1894) was a Russian Orthodox bishop of Tambov in Russia.<br><br>More Reflection on this poem (click)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou must descend from&nbsp;your head into your heart. At present, your thoughts of God&nbsp;are in your head.&nbsp; And God himself is, as it were, outside you, and&nbsp;so your prayer and other spiritual exercises&nbsp;remain exterior.&nbsp; Whilst you are still in your head,&nbsp;thoughts will not easily be subdued but&nbsp;will always be whirling about, like snow&nbsp;in winter or&nbsp;clouds&#8230;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,729,730],"tags":[731,486],"class_list":["post-15663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mystic","category-poetry","tag-deeper","tag-spirituality-of-everyday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}