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• 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....
• What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word QUALITY cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates.
  This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate, and direct....
• What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word QUALITY cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates.
  This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate, and direct....
• Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
  -- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
• 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...
• Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live
  but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through...
• 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....
• 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....