One can deliver oneself up to crucifixion, but one cannot crucify oneself. Therefore that which the active night has begun [by our efforts] must be completed by the passive night, that is, through God himself. Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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.
One can deliver oneself up to crucifixion, but one cannot crucify oneself. Therefore that which the active night has begun [by our efforts] must be completed by the passive night, that is, through God himself.
Contemplative in the Mud 