In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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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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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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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