The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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spiritzenmountaindiscoverselfSource: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
A genuine and well-known line from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), from the mountain-climbing passages in which the narrator reflects on Chris and on the futility of treating the summit as the point. Attribution and source both secure.