Werner Erhard Quotes

Self-help guru

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.

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Birth Name: John Paul Rosenberg

Native Name: Werner Hans Erhard

Alternative Names: Jack Rosenberg

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You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment of our lives, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.

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.

Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Inherent in human beings are possibilities which we now can't even entertain. Before the space launch, space travel to many of us was the stuff of fantasy, of science fiction. We know what it is to explore the limits of what we consider to be a human being, but if we were to transform our understanding of ourselves, if we were to transform what we knew a human being to be, new possibilities of expression would open. We could function in a more creative way. In a more humane way. In the past we were transformed by the thrust of evolution or by accidental forces. This time we should transform ourselves with a conscious, committed degree of self-awareness.

Obviously, the truth is what's so. Not so obviously, it's also so what.

You can either have reasons or results.

Miracles occur in direct proportion to our willingness to have them.

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.

Love for a person is acceptance of him or her the way he is and the way he is not.

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.

… 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.