Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONFluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.
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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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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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