Contemplative in the Mud

The Heart Staying Awake

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Benjamin Embley

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René VoillaumeThe continuity that exists in the presence of God is not that of our consciousness, explicit as that would be in the form of images and ideas about that Presence, but it rather resides in a vigilance of love. Imaginative or intellectual attention is but a means to obtain this [loving] vigilance. The heart must stay awake, and it can stay awake, even when the whole man is applied to some work to be done.
René Voillaume (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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    Jonathan Caswell

    Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:

    SCRIPTURE SAYS TO BE CONTINUALLY IN PRAYER AND SUPPLICATIONS….BROTHER LAWRENCE WOULD CALL IT PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

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