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.
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.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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