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Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We Are

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Question of Beginnings and Origins

i think that our bond with humankind is felt as a sort of very much enlarged family narrative of origins. I think these are questions that people need crave, and they take them right back to primal origins. Most of us want to have narratives of what you might sort of call tribal origins. We lack definition of ourselves, which is an incredibly haunting feature of human life.

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