Contemplative in the Mud

Detachment is for the Sake of Love

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Benjamin Embley

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The desire to increase holy complacency [receptive love] cuts off all other pleasure, to the end that it may more actively practise that to which the divine benevolence [active love] excites it.
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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