Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition
A world which increasingly consists of destinations without journeys between them, a world which values only “getting somewhere” as fast as possible, becomes a world without substance. One can get anywhere and everywhere, and yet the more this is possible, the less is anywhere and everywhere worth getting to. For points of arrival are too abstract,
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On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
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pdf-objects.comWhen you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
And the road doesn’t disappoint: it offers an unending ribbon of sights and stop-offs whose flashing billboards promise exactly what you’re looking for—happiness, satisfaction, joy. Indeed, the road has a strange way of showing what looks like a destination in the distance that, when you get there, points to another destination beyond it.