Tim Ward famous quotes

I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.
-- Tim Ward

#Believe #Second Chance #Results

If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?
-- Tim Ward

#Crazy #People #Suffering

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.
-- Tim Ward

#Crowds #Metta #Robes

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.
-- Tim Ward

#Buddhist #Silence #Sage

You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes that we adopt because of congruence with what we think we know. Science demands skepticism.
-- Tim Ward

#Thinking #Errors #Demand

The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become attached to something that doesn't exist. Enlightenment isn't a thing you get.
-- Tim Ward

#Ideas #Practice #People

A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to them.' What does that say about the monkhood? He can't tolerate people with 'dust in their eyes.' All that these monks have developed here is a safe little self-centred world which they call holy because villagers bow down to them. Living in a forest and wearing a robe doesn't make you better than anybody else.
-- Tim Ward

#Eye #Self #Dust

You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall.
-- Tim Ward

#Letting Go #Fall #Bird

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.
-- Tim Ward

#Miracle #Events #Unexplained

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

It is the end result that counts.

We are the result of the stimulus we receive.