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Contemplation Aims at Conformity with God’s Will

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Benjamin Embley

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All that the one who practises mental prayer should seek is to conform his will to the divine will; let him be assured that in this consists the highest perfection.
Saint Teresa of Jesus

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

3 responses to “Contemplation Aims at Conformity with God’s Will”

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    […] Yet, CM and CP suggest a particular technique for… well, God only knows, because the link between “contemplation” and “doing God’s will” is obscure. Not for the Doctors. For them, they assert over and over again that contemplation is to do God’s will. […]

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    […] Alphonsus even quotes Saint Teresa, who remarks that all contemplation aims at conformity with God’s will.  But then he seems to develop his […]

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    […] will. When some writers and saints answer contemplation, it all amounts to the same thing. Contemplation aims to do God’s will. In fact, that exactly what the transforming stages of contemplation, stripping us on sense and […]

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