Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONImprovisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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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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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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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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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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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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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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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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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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