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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
Autobiographer
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Philosopher
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
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The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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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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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
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Science values static patterns.
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So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?
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