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We've arrived at the West Coast!

Photo by Larry James Baylas on Unsplash We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country. We've been out of it for so long I'd forgotten all about it. Robert M. Pirsig (Chapter 26, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance )

You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away (Robert M. Pirsig)

Photo by Shawn Appel on Unsplash You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away. Quality is what you see out of the corner of your eye, and so I look at the lake below but feel the particular quality from the chill, almost frigid sunlight behind me, and the almost motionless wind. Robert M. Pirsig (Chapter 28, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance )

The real machine you're working on is a cycle called yourself (Robert M. Pirsig)

The real machine you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be 'out there' and the person that appears to be 'in here' are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together. Robert M. Pirsig

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal (Robert M. Pirsig)

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The only zen you find on mountains is the zen you bring up there (Robert M. Pirsig)

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One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong. (Jacinda Ardern)

If you want to...set a nation right without getting stuck...you have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a sense of what's good. That is what carries you forward. Robert M.Pirsig (Chapter 24, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance )

The more you look, the more you see (Robert M. Pirsig)

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Puzzling

Photo by Rubén Bagüés on Unsplash It was 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. Robert M. Pirsig (in Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance)

At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe (Bruce Springsteen)

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives (Robert M. Pirsig) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the only book I've read more than four times. It's that good and it changed my life! Pirsig tells it like it is - we DO keep passing unseen, in the margins of other people's lives.