“We can choose to be audacious enough to take responsibility for the entire human family. We can choose to make our love for the world what our lives are really about. Each of us has the opportunity...”

— Werner Erhard

“… 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 bei...”

— Werner Erhard

“The possibility to create the context in which people’s lives really matter is undoubtedly the most profound opportunity available to anyone, ever.”

— Werner Erhard

“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 motion...”

— Werner Erhard

“At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.”

— Werner Erhard

“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.”

— Werner Erhard

“[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 M...”

— Werner Erhard

“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

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

— Werner Erhard

“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?”

— Werner Erhard

“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 t...”

— Werner Erhard

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

— Werner Erhard

“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 c...”

— Werner Erhard

“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 famil...”

— Werner Erhard