Contemplative in the Mud

Always Much Love

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Benjamin Embley

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With contemplatives there is always much love, or they wouldn’t be contemplatives.
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.

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  1. (l.b). Michael Avatar
    (l.b). Michael

    Here is first class proof that the Church is full of Wisdom making the great St. Teresa a Doctor of the Church. Yet, profund Wisdom is also profoundly simple: “much love!”

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    1. Contemplative in the Mud Avatar
      Contemplative in the Mud

      I think so, too!

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