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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."
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Werner Erhard"Without Carl Rogers and Werner Erhard coaching would not exist."
Werner Hans Erhard is an American author and lecturer who founded Erhard Seminars Training (est), a course of personal and social transformation, which was offered from 1971 to 1984. In 1985, Erhard replaced est with a newly designed and updated program called the Forum. Since 1991, the Forum has been kept up to date and offered by Landmark Education.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"“I met Hawking and Gerard’t Hooft in the attic of Werner Erhard’s house where Erhard’s office was located in San Francisco. … Dick Feynman, myself, and David Finkelstein were Erhard’s gurus. … He was very, very smart.”"
"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."