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“Gardul metafizic, ca şi zidul, stă să blocheze. Să nu lase să intre, dar mai cu seamă, să nu lase să iasă. Şi totuşi zidurile au stat de pe timpuri ca o provocare – o cetate e ca şi o invitaţie de a fi cucerită, zdrobită… Un perete – va rezista sau nu va rezista? De gard nu se ia nimeni: gardul e păzit, năruit, rezemat, dar niciodată cucerit…”
― Zen la pachet
― Zen la pachet
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Mă gândesc că, deşi concepem istoria ca pe ceva foarte mare şi rece, iar propria biografie ca pe ceva micuţ și insignifiant, în realitate şi una și cealaltă sunt puse în mişcare de răsucirea arcului mecanic. Se întâmplă ca vreo biografie să se ridice la rangul de istorie, dar se întâmplă şi invers – istoria alungă biografia din propria ei casă, provocând cataclisme.”
― Zen la pachet
― Zen la pachet
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