All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being … - Werner Erhard

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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

Werner Erhard

All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference. . . to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.

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So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up a lot of things to which you may be attached. You may have to give up your resentments, your anger, your upset, your annoyance, your desire to punish.

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