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

- Tim Ward

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 attach…

- Tim Ward

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

- Tim Ward

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

- Tim Ward

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 …

- Tim Ward

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 solvi…

- Tim Ward

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 abo…

- Tim Ward

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

- Tim Ward

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

- Tim Ward