Contemplative in the Mud

Lacking the Simplicity and Openness Due to Human Beings

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Benjamin Embley

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René Voillaume We must admit that we have not yet succeeded in eradicating totally our feelings of superiority over other races. No, we have not rid ourselves of such feelings, even if we believe the contrary. We are not yet able to behave towards these others with the complete simplicity and openness due to human beings. We are ostentatious in our friendliness, which only reveals our underlying, unacknowledged feeling of superiority.
René Voillaume LBJ (1905–2003)

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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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