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~ Sierra ~
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Posted: Wed Jan 2nd, 2008 11:49 am | 1st Post |
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I took the est training when I was only 13 years old and then again when I was 15. In researching for my book, I had my mom pull out the booklet that each participant got at the workshop, and I was surprised as to how similar a lot of the things are to the teachings I am studying now. Here it is:
IF GOD HAD MEANT MAN TO FLY, HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM WINGS
Or: Up to Your Ass in Aphorisms
The truth doesn’t mean anything. It just is.
If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.
Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn’t fit. If you experience it, it’s the truth. The same thing believed is a lie. In life, understanding is the booby prize.
Obviously the truth is what’s so. Not so obviously, it’s also so what.
You don’t get to vote on the way it is. You already did.
When you’ve said all of the bad things and all of the good things you haven’t been saying, you will find that what you’ve really been withholding is, “I love you.”
You don’t have to go looking for love when it is where you come from.
I know that you know that I love you. What I want you to know is that I know that you love me.
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self Expression is a function of responsibility.
It’s much easier to ride the horse in the direction he’s going.
Life is a rip off when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you chose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.
Perfection is a state in which things are the way they are and are not the way they are not. As you can see, this universe is perfect. Don’t lie about it.
You’re God in your universe. You caused it. You pretended not to cause it so that you could play in it, and you can remember that you caused it any time you want to.
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.
Don’t change beliefs. Transform the believer.
IF GOD HAD MEANT MAN TO FLY, HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM WINGS
Or: Up to Your Ass in Aphorisms
One creates from nothing.
If you try to create from something you’re just changing something.
So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing.
To make sure a person doesn’t find out who he is, convince him that he can’t really make anything disappear.
All that’s left then is to resist, solve, fix, help or change things.
That’s trying to make something out of something.
Life is a game.
In order to have a game something has to be more important than 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.
This is it. There are no hidden meanings.
All that mystical stuff is just what’s so.
A master is someone who found out.
The essence of communication is intention.
If you could really accept that you weren’t ok you could stop proving that 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 end is the end, or it isn’t. The end justifies the means, or it doesn’t.
If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you’re doing is what God wants you to do.
BE HAPPY.
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~Sierra~
http://www.iam-iam-iam.com
http://www.divinedolphin.com
LIVE A LIFE OF LOVE, LIGHT & LAUGHTER!
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Robert Radford
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Posted: Mon Jan 7th, 2008 12:00 am | 2nd Post |
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My wife and I took the two-weekend Erhard Seminar Training (est) Forum, the Six-Day program (the one which includes rapelling down mountains), the five-day Mastery of Empowerment program, a number of one-day est workshops and we became leaders of the "Introduction to the Forum" workshop. We saw many wondrous things take place, including a dislexic friend of ours who, after taking the est program, read to the forum the letter which the doctors had sent to his mother, telling her that her son would never be able to read.
In a presentation in New York City, we were very impressed the way that Werner Erhard would find the "golden thread" in what a loud heckler would shout, and Werner would eventually lead the heckler (and the rest of the audience) to honor the value in what the heckler had said -- a very "win-win" achievement.
Robert
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~ Sierra ~
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Posted: Mon Jan 7th, 2008 12:25 am | 3rd Post |
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I really liked the est training and I believe it helped to give me a lot of the tools at a very young age that I have used through my life to be an allower and a manifestor (most of the time!!)
I also loved the major changed it made for my family. There was a lot of yelling and screaming before we all did est, and after that, it was "get off it" and everyone gave up their anger and took responsibility a lot faster. It really did create a much more peaceful environment in our home and changed our language too.
I think Werner got a bad rap, some of the concepts I don't agree with now, but most of it was really good and it certainly created positive change for me!
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http://www.divinedolphin.com
LIVE A LIFE OF LOVE, LIGHT & LAUGHTER!
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Posted: Wed May 21st, 2008 08:12 pm | 4th Post |
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That little booklet is still with me, 28 years after doing the training. While I never went to the followup seminars nor recruited others, the training still impacts my life on a daily basis.
Thanks for sharing!
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