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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
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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.
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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
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Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
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You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.
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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
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It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...
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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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It's better not to see than to see wrongly.
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Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.
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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
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The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.
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The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.
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