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Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

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

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

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

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

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.

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

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.

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

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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