Anne Wilson Schaef

“Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.”

“Our culture has valued closed systems and tries to generate them in all walks of life. Women are better at and more comfortable with open systems, which occur naturally in nature.”

“Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.”

“Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.”

“Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.”

“Knowing ourselves and how we feel can help us improve.”

“Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.”

“Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.”

“It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.”

“I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.”

“We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.”

“Differences challenge assumptions.”

“We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.”

“All of us need to talk to someone who's interesting, intelligent, knows us well, and is on our side - and that's us. We're probably the most interesting person we know.”

“Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the 'how' of the ways we do our work rather than the 'what' of the work itself.”

“There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.”

“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”

“What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.”

“Healthy people live with their world.”

“Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.”