Excerpts from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I am Phaedrus, that is who I am, and they are going to destroy me for speaking the Truth.
Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through: We've won it. It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things.
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...
Robert M. Pirsig