When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.
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That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.Robert M. Pirsig
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent fabulously more coherent when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world.... ... but showing that, of course, was a very big job.
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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What follows is based on actual occurences. However,it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual about motorcycles,either.
Robert M. Pirsig
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig
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