Edward Fahey Quotes

#1. Let go of the past.
Open to forever.
Hearts can heal.
Inside them is that which can never be broken.

Edward Fahey

#2. You have become what you are through countless lives and lessons. There is something you can offer others; if only working on your self-discipline, fighting your own baser urges.
Do that then. Do what is offered. Learn and grow as you can.
That in itself is service.

Edward Fahey

#3. Sometimes everything inside us must be torn apart. Only then can we sort through to what is truly worth keeping.

Edward Fahey

#4. Grief is a closing that leads to an opening just exactly when you really don't want one.

Edward Fahey

#5. Something had gone horribly wrong at my birth, so my father would never have his little soldier, Mom would never have her home filled with tiny scampering joy, and we each clutched our guilt very privately.

Edward Fahey

#6. Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.

Edward Fahey

#7. Broken hearts show us we've grown out of one stage, by ripping us wide open for the next.
We're forced to choose what we do with all that pain: turn it against ourselves, aim it at someone else, or tap all that power and reach higher.

Edward Fahey

#8. Sometimes I wish I could feel more pain
so I could touch that much more beauty.

Edward Fahey

#9. It was a dense, moldering night, smelling of damp old basements and times best left unstirred.

Edward Fahey

#10. Life is about trying to find our ways back to our one shared soul. When we're looking out at the stars, we're looking into ourselves.

Edward Fahey

#11. I'd gone out into the world, intricately lacing distractions and busywork around the long-gnawing emptiness, only to find I'd merely embellished rather than hidden it.

Edward Fahey

#12. Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are.

Edward Fahey

#13. Some guarded their children when they saw me, as though congenital defects and loneliness were contagious, even at a distance and through glass.

Edward Fahey

#14. The emptiness of one's days
can be seen as utterly hopeless
or as ripe with potential.

Edward Fahey

#15. The diaphanous gown of the Milky Way shifted through scattered stars and all wishes made upon them. It gathered its silky folds as her eyes adjusted to darkness through spasms of beauty and joy.
Florescent mists wandered the shadows, brushing trees softly with moon glow.

Edward Fahey

#16. It is so hard to think 'was' about your mom.

Edward Fahey