Re: MD Epigrams on Quality

From: Steve & Oxsana Marquis (marquis@nccn.net)
Date: Thu Mar 31 2005 - 21:15:26 BST

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    Hi Platt. What about Static Quality?

    Live well,
    Steve

    > All:
    >
    > Some epigrammatic thoughts about Pirsig's "Quality:"
    >
    > Quality is first of all immediate experience.
    >
    > Quality is the primal value that strikes the senses directly.
    >
    > Quality is sensed as real, but cannot be described.
    >
    > Quality is not something observed, it's something felt.
    >
    > Quality is immediate and involuntary. It's an intuitive, not an
    > intellectual concept.
    >
    > One does not understand Quality any more than one understands the song of
    > a bird.
    >
    > All things possess an innate Quality template.
    >
    > Quality is a constant, but different for each independent entity.
    >
    > Quality is recognition of a psychic world by a psychic entity.
    >
    > Science, law, medicine, business -- all noble pursuits. But Quality is
    > what we live for.
    >
    > If materialism has an Achilles heal, the mystery of Quality is it.
    >
    > Platt

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