Top 72 Matthew Fox Quotes
#1. The only autograph I ever got, which I do not have anymore, was Matthew Fox when he was on 'Party Of Five.' I was in high school, and he came to our local amusement park, and I stood in line and got an autograph.
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#2. Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
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#3. I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.
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#4. Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
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#5. To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
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#6. The prophets preach ... that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.
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#7. I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
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#8. From suffering I have learned this: That whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embrace the very same love which wounded her. - Mechtild of Magdeburg
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#9. If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to ... women.
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#11. I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
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#12. I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.
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#13. Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.
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#14. Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
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#15. I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.
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#16. I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!
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#17. Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.
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#18. I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.
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#19. When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
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#20. I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.
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#21. What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me. - Meister Eckhart
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#22. When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.
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#23. Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.
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#24. I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.
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#25. If you don't work on yourself, then much of your politics is merely projections. We have to walk our talk and do the inner work that allows the outer work to be authentic and also effective.
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#26. A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.
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#27. If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
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#28. I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
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#29. The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.
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#30. The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.
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#31. I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.
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#32. Men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky
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#33. A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
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#34. Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.
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#35. Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.
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#36. We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.
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#37. The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.
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#38. By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.
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#39. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.
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#40. To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.
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#41. We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.
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#42. I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
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#43. I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
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#44. After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.
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#45. I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite ... well, intense about driving other people.
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#46. Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.
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#47. And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.
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#48. What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.
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#49. Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.
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#50. To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.
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#51. A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.
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#52. I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.
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#53. Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.
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#54. Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
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#55. I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.
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#56. Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.
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#57. We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.
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#58. The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.
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#59. Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.
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#60. Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.
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#61. Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.
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#62. God is voluptuous and delicious. - Meister Eckhart
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#63. A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.
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#64. It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
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#65. When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.
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#66. I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.
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#67. Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.
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#68. Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.
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#69. I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.
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#70. Human beings are midway between the size of a living cell and the size of Earth.
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#71. Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
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#72. Any time I need to be really physical, and a role requires that, you're kind of viscerally activated by being that physical in it. It takes away the thought process, which is fun.
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