Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON
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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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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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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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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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