Tim Farrington Quotes

#1. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI

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#2. I had learned at last to not project my darkness onto those around me;

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#3. She had a fleeting sense of his God out there somewhere, like the sea itself, invisible and dangerous, a vastness wrapped in darkness, just a long fall away.

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#4. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI

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#5. We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.

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#6. But deep prayer, prolonged prayer, is a terrible mirror - kneel there long enough and everything shows. There's no way out of eventually seeing your phoniness and dishonesty.

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#7. God is the nail that splits our palm to break our grip on the world.

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#8. We expect God's presence to be thunderous, spectacular, monumental; but it is our need that is so large. The real presence slips past our demands for spectacle. It slips past our despair.

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#9. It was his wedding day, and then it was any day; it was nothing, and then it was forever.

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#10. I don't care if you're spoiled, for God's sake! I'm spoiled. We're all spoiled, life does that. It's what you do with yourself after you realize you've been spoiled that matters. It's the life you make in the ruins.

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#11. I've got a wonderful, pathetic little life that is precious to me.

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#12. Freud put it beautifully: the aim of psychoanalysis is to help the patient let go of the delusional suffering of his neuroses and experience the misery of actual reality.

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#13. He smelled like somebody trying to smell like somebody else.

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#14. There didn't seem to be that much to say. If you loved Phoebe now, it was going to hurt you to see her. Like facing cold water, you just jumped in and swam anyway.

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#15. She loved her daughter, the blessing of a good book, a glass of wine after the day's wave of vanity had passed.

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#16. Today she wore a navy blue suit that deftly minimized a slight tendency to heft.

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#17. She forgot: it was as simple as that. She just loved being with the guy. Possibly enough that not even their own wedding could screw it up.

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