What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONWhat 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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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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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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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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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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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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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