Quote: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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During one of the many rainy days lately, I dug out Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and am re-rereading it - one of my favorites.

For those of you with your boats in the water, here's a quote that translates nicely to sailing - at least for me.

... This is grassland now. We are on the prairie. ...flatness and great emptiness as far as you can see... In my mind, when I look at these fields, I ... feel a thing about these parairies I have given up talking to others about; a thing that exists here because everything else does not and can be noticed because other things are absent. ...It's here, but I have no name for it.
- Robert L. Pirsig