As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONImprovisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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