Mary Catherine Bateson — Living as an Improvisational Art
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Book of Job
I'm not happy with the division of between people who say, i'm ritual but not religious. To me, the starting place is the sense of wonder. And that can take you into science. It can take you into art. Other human beings are amazing and beautiful. The more we study it, the more fascinating and intricate and elegant it turns out to be. That's my interpretation of the book of job. Incidentally, my father used to say that job gets over his distress by learning some natural history. I actually got interested in this sense of wonder because, for a series of historical reasons, i know a lot about judaism....
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