Sleepingwithink

“As long as you’re stuck with the old conventions, insanity is going to be a “misunderstanding of the object by the subject.” The object is real, the subject is mistaken. The only problem is how to change the subject’s mind back to a correct comprehension of objective reality.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

“The man who suffers a heart attack and is taken off the train at New Rochelle has had all his static patterns shattered, he can’t find them, and in that moment only Dynamic Quality is available to him. That is why he gazes at his own hand with a sense of wonder and delight.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

“He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting. That's what the insanity is. She's adjusting to something. The insanity is the adjustment. Insanity isn't necessarily a step in the wrong direction, it can be an intermediate step in a right direction. It wasn't necessarily a disease. It could be part of a cure.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

“Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought too. A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral precedence over a society.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals