Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

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.

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

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.

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

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.