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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.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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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.
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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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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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