Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand
in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them,
being content to listen to others who have been there
and thus avoid the hardships. Some travel into the mountains
accompanied by experienced guides who know the best and least
dangerous routes by which they arrive at their destination.
Still others, inexperienced and untrusting, attempt to make their own routes.
Few of these are successful, but occasionally some, by sheer will
and luck and grace, do make it. Once there they become more aware
than any of the others that there's no single or fixed number of routes.
There are as many routes as there are individual souls.
- Robert M. Pirsig
from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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