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The only Zen you find

Robert M. Pirsig – Collection 1
The only Zen you find was last modified: August 4th, 2014 by quotemirror

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

Robert Maynard Pirsig
   

Robert M. Pirsig – Collection 1



Robert Maynard Pirsig

Robert Maynard Pirsig is an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991).
Pirsig was born on September 6, 1928 to Harriet Marie Sjobeck and Maynard Pirsig, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is of German and Swedish descent. His father was a University of Minnesota Law School (UMLS) graduate, and started teaching at the school in 1934. The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970. He resumed his career as a professor at the William Mitchell College of Law, where he remained until his final retirement in 1993.

source: wikipedia