My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest. My next favorite is coffee.
– from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book by Robert Pirsig
Tag: Quotes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book
Other people can talk about how …
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.
– from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book by Robert Pirsig
You see things vacationing on a …
You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.
– from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book by Robert Pirsig
The past cannot remember the past …
The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
– from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book by Robert Pirsig