Werner Erhard
Werner Erhard
Werner Hans Erhard:7is a critical thinker and author of transformational models and applications for individuals, groups, and organizations. He has written about integrity, performance, leadership and transformation. Werner Erhard has lectured at Harvard University, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, University of Rochester, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford Union at Oxford University, and the US Air Force Academy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make more complex than necessary the process of translating intention into reality.
If you're not all right the way you are it takes a lot of effort to get better. Realize you're all right the way you are,and you'll get better naturally.
The world is perfect the way it is.
Who you know yourself to be” is simply one way of being that is available to you, and you are not stuck with that way of being.
In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We discover that as human beings we can live in a possibility instead of in what we have inherited, that instead of just being a human being because we were born that way, we can declare the possibility of being for human beings. This is the work of transformation: bringing forth a breakthrough in the possibility of being human.
If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.
If you could really accept that you weren't ok, you could stop proving you were ok. If you could stop proving that you were ok, you could get that it was ok not to be ok. If you could get that it was ok not to be ok you could get that you were ok the way you are. You're ok, get it?
The quickest way to be happy is to choose what you already have.
Love is granting another the space to be the way they are and the way they are not.
Ride the horse in the direction it's going.
Life is a game. In order to have a game something has to be more importantthan something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.
Self expression is a function of responsibility.
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
The real purpose of est was to create space for people to participate in life - to experience true space and freedom in life.