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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 ImageTo live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAnxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You’re so sure you’ll do everything wrong you’re afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than ‘laziness’ is the real reason you find it hard to get started.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe 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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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

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FindCenter Quotes ImagePeace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageYou look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.

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