What he’s looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn’t want that because it is all around him. Every step’s an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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