“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.”

Interview with William Warren Bartley, cited in — [Bartley, William Warren, w:William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1978, New York, 252, 0-517-53502-5]

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