Sublime

surroundings,

semisleep.

Robert Pirsig inspired a generation to philosophical reflection—and organizing their thoughts—with his hugely popular novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, published in 1974. In a somewhat less well-known later book (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize), Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, he endeavors to establish a way of thinking about metaphysi

want

Critique of Pure Reason,

Therefore the thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else is the gumption.

Familiarity can blind you too.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.