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born 1935 United States
Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg on September 5, 1935) is the founder of Erhard Seminars Training ("EST") and The Forum. He also co-founded The Hunger Project.
Also known as: Werner Erhard and Associates, Werner H. Erhard, Werner Hans Erhard, Werner Spits, Jack Rosenberg, John Paul Rosenberg
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The possibility to create the context in which people’s lives really matter is undoubtedly the most profound opportunity available to anyone, ever.
At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
Obviously the truth is what's so. Not so obviously, it is also so what.
Until what is significant is created by you, you aren’t living your life, you are living some inherited life.
Love for a person is acceptance of him or her the way he is and the way he is not.
You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment of our lives and under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.
The moment when you really experience that you have created yourself being whatever way you are, at that same moment you will never have to be that way again.
Image of money movements quoted by Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, from a United States Tax Court filing.
To take a stand for the future is to bring forth a new opportunity, not one derived from the past, but an opportunity created from a future to which we give ourselves.
Does it really work for us to go through our lives as though there were no realizations beyond the grasp of our system-of-concepts, the awareness of which would transform the quality of our lives?
The purpose of est is to transform your ability to experience living so that the situations you have been trying to change or have been putting up with clear up just in the process of life itself.
If you’re going to be a leader, you’re going to have to have a very loose relationship with this thing you call ‘I’ or ‘me’. Maybe that whole thing in me around which the universe revolves isn’t so central! Maybe life is not about the self but about self-transcendence.
My plans could be said to be to make est as public as possible. My notion on how to do that is through the educational system. So I would like to give est up to the environment.
When my integrity is lacking, I am clear that I just got to be a bit smaller as a person. That keeps me working on my integrity. And the thing about integrity is it’s a mountain with no top.
The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century.
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There are only two things in the world — nothing and semantics.
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You are part of every atom in the world, and every atom is part of you.
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Mastering life is the process of moving from where you are to where you want to be.
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Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
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Something experienced is true; the same thing believed is a lie.
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