Robert M. Pirsig

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth.’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Faith is one of the most effective tools in the human equipment. I believe that faith works.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. I’m very sensitive to it.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.