All 3 Uses
equilibrium
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.†
Part 3 *equilibrium = balance
- My pack must be about forty or forty-five pounds now, and after we've climbed for a while an equilibrium establishes itself at about one breath for each step.†
Part 3
- He's starting to get almost cocky, so I step up the equilibrium to where I breathe at a good swift rate, about one-and-a-half times our former speed.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(equilibrium) a stable situation in which forces are in balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or emotional balance - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)