If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.