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Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

By Mary Catherine Bateson
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.

By Mary Catherine Bateson
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.

By Mary Catherine Bateson
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

By Mary Catherine Bateson
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

By Mary Catherine Bateson
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

By Mary Catherine Bateson
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

By Mary Catherine Bateson
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.

By Mary Catherine Bateson