Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. - Robert M. Pirsig

These shapes are all out of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind!

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.

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