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A Profound Orientation of Being

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Benjamin Embley

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Marie-Joseph Le GuillouThis experience [of contemplation, love, and transfiguration] is a sort of apostolic renewing: it reaches to the very depths of the human being. Very often, it will be described, in the East, as an experience of the beauty of God… It’s not a particular emotional state. It’s the aptitude or the possibility of undergoing, throughout different such states, a profound orientation of being.
Marie-Joseph Le Guillou OP (1920–1990)

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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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