Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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.
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
”Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
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.
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.