Contemplative in the Mud

Interior Mortification Lets Us Be Completely Surrendered to the Spirit

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Benjamin Embley

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Interior mortification makes everything else more meritorious and perfect, and afterward enables us to do the other things with greater ease and repose. This interior mortification is acquired… by proceeding gradually, not giving in to our own will and appetites, even in little things, until the body is completely surrendered to the spirit.
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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