Werner Erhard
Founder of Erhard Seminars Training and The Forum.
How do I know I'm not the reincarnation of Jesus Christ?
Something experienced is true; the same thing believed is a lie.
Erhard is the man who more or less invented the personal growth movement in California in the early 1970s.
What I recognized is that you can't put it together. It's already together, and what you have to do is experience it being together.
In the first place, est-Forum was primarily a business, efficiently directed by its founder and head Werner Erhard for the purpose of making a profit. Indeed, the internal discipline of the organization was so strong that its style of operation has been labeled as fascist.
Transformation does not negate what has gone before; rather, it fulfills it. Creating the context of a world that works for everyone is not just another step forward in human history; it is the context out of which our history will begin to make sense.
Miracles occur in direct proportion to our willingness to have them.
Erhard maintains that he had a clear business purpose for engaging in the transactions because he desired to terminate his relationship with Margolis... However, even if Erhard had a legitimate business purpose for terminating his relationship with Margolis, that did not give him a business purpose for engaging in the specific transactions at issue here. The fact that he may have had a good business reason for separating from Margolis does not necessarily justify resorting to circular money movements (that just happened to create tax benefits) to effectuate that separation.
The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century.
You are part of every atom in the world, and every atom is part of you.
There are only two things in the world — nothing and semantics.
California est guru Werner Erhard ... would find himself the subject of a 60 Minutes investigation ... during which some of his children and former est associates made public charges about physical and mental cruelty ... he continues to live outside the country.
You are God in your own universe. There is no God unless it is self.
Mastering life is the process of moving from where you are to where you want to be.
Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
I have a lot of feeling for Ron Hubbard. His genius has not been sufficiently acknowledged.
Here is where it is. Now is when it is. You are what it is.
Until what is significant is created by you, you aren’t living your life, you are living some inherited life.
The American obsession with Transformation isn’t new. It’s about as old as the nation. In the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson preached about tapping into the “infinitude of man.” Norman Vincent Peale was an early bestselling self-help author with The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952. But it was Werner Erhard who created the first modern transformation when he founded est seminars in 1971. It’s a tribute to the power of his central concept that more than 20 years after he sold his ideas to a group of employees Landmark is still the natural first stop in any transformation tour.