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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
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
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
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
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
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
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
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Clarity Early Loss Moments
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Demand Give Share
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
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
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
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Empowerment Future Leadership Present
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Fear Forget Goodness Philosophy Teacher Wisdom
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

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