Robert M. Pirsig Quotes
Book: The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. If you run from technology, it will chase you. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain. If you stare at a wall from ...