Werner Erhard quotes

Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. (Werner Erhard)
Create your future from your future not your past. View quote
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You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. View quote
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You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions in life, even if those motions make us successful or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have had some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work. View quote
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You are part of every atom in the world, and every atom is part of you. View quote
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You can either have reasons or results. View quote
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Miracles occur in direct proportion to our willingness to have them. View quote
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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? View quote
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Mastering life is the process of moving from where you are to where you want to be. View quote
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I am a sort of revolutionary. I have a strange ambition, though. I don't want any statues. What I want is for the world to work. I want to create a context in which government, education, and families are nurturing. I want to en­able, to empower, the institutions of man. Social transformation doesn't argue against social change. Radicalism and resistance produce obvious values. But after a while, social change chases its own tail. Social change just produces social change. After most ordinary revolutions, after most social change, the world still doesn't work. For the world to work you must have social transformation, which creates the space for effective social change. View quote
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... sometime around now, the rules for living successfully on earth shifted, and an opportunity, unseen before, began to reveal itself. This opportunity is a context-a particular space, or way of being-which unexpectedly creates the possibility for a person's life to truly make a difference. In this context, the way each of us answers the question, ‘What is my life really going to be about?' can literally alter the course of humanity. (Werner Erhard)
Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people. View quote
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Of all the disciplines that I studied, practiced, learned, Zen was the essential one. It was not so much an influence on me, rather it created space. It allowed those things that were there to be there. It gave some form to my experience. And it built up in me the critical mass from which was kindled the experience that produced est. View quote
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I got a lot of benefit from auditing. It was the fastest and deepest way to handle situations that I had yet encountered. I immediately wanted to learn to do it. ... With Scientology, I was able to characterize the Mind more accurately, and to cease justifying it. This greatly clarified what I was doing. ... After my experience with Scientology, I saw what it means to see the Mind as a machine. I can now operate my Mind accordingly, with exactitude. I can do the familiar mind over matter experiments - the control of pain and bleeding, telepathy, those things. Many people can do such things, and they are well known in the yogic tradition. View quote
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There are only two things in the world - nothing and semantics. View quote
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[Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind. View quote
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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. View quote
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Happiness is a function of accepting what is. View quote
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Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit. View quote
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Love for a person is acceptance of him or her the way he is and the way he is not. View quote
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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. (Werner Erhard)
How do I know I'm not the reincarnation of Jesus Christ? View quote
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At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives. View quote
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Something experienced is true; the same thing believed is a lie. View quote
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I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be. View quote
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Werner Erhard

Occupation: American Thinker
Born: September 5, 1935
Quotes count: 43
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