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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition
Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere. We are just vacationing.
from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
Sarah Wong added 6mo ago
The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.
from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
Sarah Wong added 6mo ago
Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
Matteo Grand added 3d ago
That itself is a poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, not
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Matteo Grand added 3d ago
If someone’s ungrateful and you tell him he’s ungrateful, okay, you’ve called him a name. You haven’t solved anything.
from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
Sarah Wong added 6mo ago
‘When are we going to get going?’ Chris says. ‘What’s your hurry?’ I ask. ‘I just want to get going.’ ‘There’s nothing up ahead that’s any better than it is right here.’
from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
Sarah Wong added 6mo ago