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.
From Robert M. Pirsig
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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