I'm in the middle of Jeremy Griffith's book Freedom. I've just come across this quote in it: 'Jacob Bronowski also recognised that the ‘real vision of the human being’-of an unconditionally selfless, loving, sound, integratively behaved individual, which Christ so exemplified-is a direct product of the nurturing that takes place between a mother and her child, saying that ‘But, far more deeply, it [a sound mind] depends on the long preparation of human childhood…The real vision of the human being is the child wonder, the Virgin and Child, the Holy Family’ (The Ascent of Man).
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I'm in the middle of Jeremy Griffith's book Freedom. I've just come across this quote in it: 'Jacob Bronowski also recognised that the ‘real vision of the human being’-of an unconditionally selfless, loving, sound, integratively behaved individual, which Christ so exemplified-is a direct product of the nurturing that takes place between a mother and her child, saying that ‘But, far more deeply, it [a sound mind] depends on the long preparation of human childhood…The real vision of the human being is the child wonder, the Virgin and Child, the Holy Family’ (The Ascent of Man).
The golden threads we weave into our tapestry of life are all special.