Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Zen is the vehicle of reality.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.

Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. To be of choice is to enter the world: the dream world, the divided world, the false, the pseudo, the illusory world.