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The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it’s right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

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Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017) was an American author and professor. Pirsig was best known for his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a contemporary philosophical meditation on how to live.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIsn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHow strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe are what we believe we are!

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNo great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageExperience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAs my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

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