{"id":34742,"date":"2017-09-05T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34742"},"modified":"2017-09-04T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T14:03:05","slug":"discern-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/discern-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Discern differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To begin to discern differences in one\u2019s life a person must be <strong>attentive<\/strong> to what lies within, to what brings and supports peace and tranquility [stability of heart] or what produces and reinforces confusing, destructive behavior. This <strong>attentiveness<\/strong> means concretely taking time to listen to one\u2019s inner life.<\/p>\n<p>It presumes a discipline of being in or creating a quiet environment in which a person can begin to recognize what is happening internally. It presupposes that while any discernment process might necessarily include dialogue with others, it must include, above all, a dialogue with oneself-in relationship with God.<\/p>\n<p>Silence and solitude can provide this conversation. Such attentive listening can lead to less illusions and self-delusions (signs of the devil according to St. Anthony of the Desert). It can also lead to greater knowledge of one\u2019s true self, a self more grounded in truth, more capable of living in reality.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Sellner, <em>Finding the Monk Within<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To begin to discern differences in one\u2019s life a person must be attentive to what lies within, to what brings and supports peace and tranquility [stability of heart] or what produces and reinforces confusing, destructive behavior. This attentiveness means concretely taking time to listen to one\u2019s inner life. It presumes a discipline of being in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/discern-differences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discern differences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34743,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742\/revisions\/34743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}