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• The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
  -- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
• Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
  -- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
• Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.
  An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors....
• Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.
  An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors....
• If I could read your mind, love, What a tale your thoughts could tell
  Just like a paperback novel, The kind the drugstore sells, When you reach the part where the heartaches come, The hero would be me, Heroes often fail, You won't read that book again, because the ending is just too hard to take....
• When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes.
  The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten....
• The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite 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 or in the petals of a flower.
  To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself....