Laurence Platt

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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1896: Easy Listening
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(in progress)

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Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1895: This Is What It All Comes Down To
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"what is is what is not is not is that it it is"

"What is, is. What is not, is not. Is that it? It is!"

Conversations For Transformation
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And More
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The Dalai Lama with Werner

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#1894: Does The Dalai Lama Complain?
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This essay, Does The Dalai Lama Complain?, is the companion piece to Do Artists Retire?.

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#1893: There Will Never Be Another Werner
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"God's greatest work wasn't creating the universe: it was disappearing into it afterwards." ... Werner

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#1892: The Thing In Itself: My Opinions About My Opinions
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"Opinions don't forward the action." ... Werner

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#1891: Transformed Conversations II
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"Transformation isn't easy. If transformation were easy, the whole world would be transformed by now." - WE

50th Bluesky post

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#1890: I Don't Do It Because It Does Any Good
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I don't write these essays simply because they do a lot of good. And I know these essays do a lot of good.

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#1889: Standing For Health
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This essay, Standing For Health, is the thirty third in an open group inspired by Landmark Programs.

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#1888: Essays - Twenty Two Years Later: Rediscovering Werner
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This essay is the 22nd annual State Of The Union celebration of Conversations For Transformation.

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#1887: My Gurus Do Not Have To Be Angels
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"The way to handle a monster is to give it lots of space." ... Werner

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#1886: Disinclined Sannyasi
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This essay, Disinclined Sannyasi, is the companion piece to Reluctant Warrior, and to Accidental Guru.

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#1885: Happiness 101 II
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Happiness 101 II is the ninth in an ennead on Happiness. It is also the sequel to Happiness 101.

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The Conversations For Transformation website has received its one million eight hundred and sixty thousandth (1,860,000) view.

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#1884: Happiness 101
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Happiness 101 is the eighth in an ennead on Happiness. It is also the prequel to Happiness 101 II.

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#1883: Life, And Living
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"Something's happening because everything is moving." ... Werner

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#1882: A Faster, Gentler Listening
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"The logic system of the mind is 'Everything is the same as everything else ... except not always.'." ... Werner

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#1881: Waterman
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"If you give back what you get out of surfing, you'll get enjoyment ten times over." ... Duke Kahanamoku speaking with Randy Rarick

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#1880: Me And The Voice In My Head II: An I Said He Said
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Equating the voice in your head with "conscience" diminishes it if its automaticity isn't distinguished.

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#1879: Creekside Cabin II
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"If a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?" ... Bishop George Berkeley (1685 - 1753)

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#1878: Nepenthe II
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A property once owned by magnate Orson "Citizen Kane" Wells, Nepenthe's entered public domain as one of 7 wonders of the experiential world.

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#1877: What We Forgot
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There is no relationship between the way you feel, the way you think, the way you are, the way you figured it out, and the way it really is.

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#1876: The Case For Spiritual Bypassing
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Spiritual bypassing is using spiritual ideas to avoid facing unresolved emotions and unfinished developmental tasks.

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#1875: I Am Not Your Mother
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I am indebted to Charlene Pekas Afremow who inspired this conversation.

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#1874: Zoom With The Master III: If You Say So
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This essay, Zoom With The Master III: If You Say So, is the companion piece to If That's What You Got.

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#1873: The Joy In Sharing
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"As stupid as it sounds, it's true there's a sense of joy with simply being with what's there." ... Werner Erhard

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#1872: Putting Integrity Into Being Unreliable
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This essay, Putting Integrity Into Being Unreliable, is the twenty fifth in a group of twenty five on Integrity.

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#1871: Conversations For Transformation Podcast
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Almost as extraordinary as Radio Bangkok reading these essays on the air, is this podcast from New Zealand.

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#1870: Evading The Possibilities
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As for being conned by Werner's work, why the fear of being conned when given who we really are we're already conned? (BIG time).

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#1869: The Intended Result
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Shared experiences of Werner (face to face): conversations with, experiences of, encounters with, questions for, visits with - and more