Anne Wilson Schaef Quotes

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.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

Work is sacred. It is not just a way to earn money or gain power, though it may result in both. Work is a vehicle for testing out our gifts and talents and using them to explore their meaning.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

Differences challenge assumptions.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

Healthy people live with their world.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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.

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- Anne Wilson Schaef

Knowing ourselves and how we feel can help us improve.

- Anne Wilson Schaef