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Good Happens Around Them Without Noise and Without Agitation

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Benjamin Embley

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Jacques MaritainContemplation… is frequently the treasure of persons hidden in the world… souls who live by it in all simplicity, without visions, without miracles, but with such a flame of love for God and neighbour that good happens all around them without noise and without agitation.
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973)

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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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    […] both occurred under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Good was probably just happening around him without noise and without agitation. People saw. Stuff […]

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