“What I recognized is that you can't put it together. It's already together, and what you have to do is experience it being together.”

—  Werner Erhard

[Ruth Tucker, 2004, Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Zondervan, 367, 0310259371]
[Larry Chang, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, 527, Gnosophia Publishers, April 28, 2006, 0977339106]
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Variant: What isn't, isn't. You can't put it together... what you have to do is experience it being together.

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