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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Greatness Imagination Live Tradition
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Demand Give Share
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Human Learning Metaphor Species Story Thinking
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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Care Design Human Learning Need Society Work
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Clarity Early Loss Moments
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
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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Dance Important Improvisation Join Learning Ourselves Responsible Step
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
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Activity Artistic Community Fly Freedom Provide
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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Believe Learning Myself Talk Understand
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Forget Human Natural Sacred Society
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Empowerment Future Leadership Present

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