Contemplative in the Mud

Some Little Mortification

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Benjamin Embley

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It is a good and useful thing to practise some little mortification. But it should be done according to the occasion without violence or anxiety. Something is shown to me; I look at it but do not linger. I take from a food which I relish; I take less of it than I would like, and that is enough.
Saint Clement Hofbauer

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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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