“If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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Robert M. Pirsig164
American writer and philosopher 1928–2017Related quotes
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
Never Give Up! http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/tupperma.q3c/tupperma.q3c-89.html, l. 1-2. <br class="br">Ballads for the Times (1851)
“Ruling hell might be better than being a subject in hell, but not by much.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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David Allen book Getting Things Done
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 1820)
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Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Sam Harris, Taming the Mind http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/taming-the-mind (April 12, 2014) <br class="br">2010s <br class="br">Context: Your life doesn't get any better than your mind is: You might have wonderful friends, perfect health, a great career, and everything else you want, and you can still be miserable. The converse is also true: There are people who basically have nothing—who live in circumstances that you and I would do more or less anything to avoid—who are happier than we tend to be because of the character of their minds. Unfortunately, one glimpse of this truth is never enough. We have to be continually reminded of it.
