Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Quotes

The one thing you can’t escape in your life is yourself. Anyone who’s traveled long enough knows this. It’s eventually clear we carry with us on the road more baggage than just our suitcase and our backpacks. Emerson, who in his own life traveled to England and Italy and France and Malta and Switzerland (as well as extensively across America), poin

He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was only when there were gaps in his struggle that insights came to him. He began to realize that there was a sane, awake quality within him which manifested itself only in the absence of struggle. So the practice of meditation involves “letting be.”

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

As I notice my environment and the world around me, does that suggest a particular action I need to take? (Paying Attention) • What is my purpose? What am I passionate about? What legacy do I want to leave behind? (Purpose) • As I step back and reflect on my life and relationships, does that suggest a particular action I should take? (Self-Reflecti

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it’s a shame more people don’t switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.