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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Activity Artistic Community Fly Freedom Provide
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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Answer Finding Fragment Learning Pattern Pleasure Share
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
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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Character Entertainment Experience Life Positive Repetition
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
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Human Learning Metaphor Species Story Thinking
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
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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Goodness Life Place Remain Willing
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
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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Commitment Decision Life Morning People Pieces Yourself
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Change Family Metaphor Understand
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
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

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