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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.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
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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Death Parents Realization Return Time
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
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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Dance Important Improvisation Join Learning Ourselves Responsible Step
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Fear Forget Goodness Philosophy Teacher Wisdom
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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Affirmation Education Existing Member Tradition
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Death End Meaning Story Time
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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Believe Learning Myself Talk Understand
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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Care Management Medicine Surprise Training
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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Criticism Growth Mistake Oneself Question Regret

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