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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.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Greatness Imagination Live Tradition
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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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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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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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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Children Finding Togetherness World
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality

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