when Col. Mustard left with the candlestick . . .

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

~Jorge Luis Borges

part of a process . . .

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

~Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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“Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?”

~Walker Percy

some girls bite . . .

“If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear – and it obviously was – I decided I liked her immediately.”

~C. Neill

What would Mary Poppins say?

“I hate being good.”
~Mary Poppins”

if you would marry a good wife . . .

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

~Thomas Fuller

“Where words leave off, music begins.”

~Heinrich Heine

 

when one is buoyant . . .

“This morning
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water
and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to
where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else
which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.” 

 

~Mary Oliver

the hopeless of my effort . . .

“Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. To do this I have to climb branch by branch and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of view, it’s reasonable that my friends say: what foolishness! She’s got her head in the clouds again. But it’s not. Of course I have to give up, but by then I’m half crazy with the wonder of it—the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.”

~Mary Oliver

if the machine produces tranquility . . .

“The 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.”

 

~Robert Pirzig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance