“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
More from Robert M. Pirsig on Mindfulness
“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
“An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.”
“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.”
“To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
Others on Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh
13 quotes“Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.”
Eckhart Tolle
8 quotes“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”
Osho
5 quotes“Be — don't try to become”
Zhuangzi
4 quotes“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the...”
Alan Watts
3 quotes“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
Woody Allen
3 quotes“Showing up is eighty percent of life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
3 quotes“The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out...”
Lao Tzu
3 quotes“Stop thinking, and end your problems.”
Rumi
3 quotes“Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carr...”
Louis L'Amour
3 quotes“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
Epicurus
3 quotes“The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”
Wayne W. Dyer
3 quotes“Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you is just...”