Laurel Scheaf > Quotes

“Each of us has experienced moments in our lives when we are fully alive—when we have no wish for it to be different, better, or more. We have no disappointment, no comparison with ideals, no sense that it is not what we worked for. We feel no protective or defensive urge—have no desire to hold on, to store up, to save. Such moments are perfect in themselves.”
― Laurel Scheaf, Conversations that Matter: Insights & Distinctions-Landmark Essays Volume 2

“The good news is that “reality” is a phenomenon that arises in language. There is no “is reality”—it’s interpretation all the way down. It is all what’s happening in language. That is all we know and all that we have access to. When we know that words can constrain and enlarge the world—a word shaping world becomes a very real thing.”
― Laurel Scheaf, Conversations that Matter: Insights & Distinctions-Landmark Essays Volume 2

“Transformative learning gives us an awareness of the basic structures within which we know, think, and act in the world. This shift does not rid us of old contexts, it simply stops defining who we are. That is the single most powerful attribute of Landmark’s work.”
― Laurel Scheaf, Conversations that Matter: Insights & Distinctions-Landmark Essays Volume 2