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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 Bateson

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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
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Address Affirmation Conflict Development Early Finding Ourselves
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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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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