A new possibility

[Addressing participants in a program]

I want you to see something.
This is a very special situation – extraordinarily unusual.

You have a room full of people
who are willing and generous enough
for you to give up who you have been
and live in a new possibility
without making you pay through the nose for it.

You don’t have to feel guilty or bad or wrong.
All you have to do is give it up.
All you have to do is be happy.

See the guy sitting next to you?
See if you can direct a little love and happiness his way.
Love and happiness don’t keep themselves alive.
You have to generate them all the time.

This is an opportunity to give something up.
All that other talk is just talk –
your talk and my talk.

Here is the choice you have:
giving up what you always have been
and creating the possibility of loving and being happy.

Werner Erhard
Leading The Landmark Forum, June 1989