Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"I had zero gumption. I gave up halfway through," says Jonesy as he struggles to understand a book about Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. The author, who is both Rob and Phaedrus, originally hung it for a rational explanation for everything but in the end found that science and philosophy, they're just maps of the truth. In other areas like love of another person or experience in nature or a feeling of closeness to God, we can access truths that actually can't be broken down. Paradoxically accepting the unreasonable can provide a lifeblood to a culture based on reason. We won't go that far - Beat novels are accepted by society so why not hippies
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