Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON
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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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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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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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