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.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONCaring 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.
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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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.
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Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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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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