Contemplative in the Mud

In Detachment There Is Nothing Taken Away

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Benjamin Embley

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Scripture takes away none of the things given by God for our use, but it restrains immoderation and corrects unreasonableness.
Saint Maximus the Confessor

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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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    sandyfaithking

    I guess my expression of this would be the other way round, coming from a tradition that puts the Word first, but I’m not sure that that makes any real difference. Which is interesting because, when it comes down to it, both expressions are seeking to honour God above all else.

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