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 BATESONThe human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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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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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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