Contemplative in the Mud

Unpretentious Mortifications that Inconvenience No One

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Benjamin Embley

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In my opinion, it is a greater virtue to eat what is served, whether you like it or not, than to choose the worst. Then you renounce both your own taste and choice in an unpretentious mortification that inconveniences no one, and is appropriate to life in the world.
Saint Francis de Sales

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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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