I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us! Matthew Fox More Quotes by Matthew Fox More Quotes From Matthew Fox Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there. Matthew Fox strong prayer heart Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. Matthew Fox essentials journey spiritual 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. Matthew Fox looking-forward fit process Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation. Matthew Fox self spiritual healing Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace. Matthew Fox sorrow grace way 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. Matthew Fox sweet life people 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. Matthew Fox four space islands I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience. Matthew Fox episodes party ends Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it. Matthew Fox fighting space letting-go I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see. Matthew Fox cinema want stuff I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you. Matthew Fox smart choices thinking 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. Matthew Fox eight want years I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy. Matthew Fox comedy blonde sorry The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people. Matthew Fox coercion inspirational people It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner. Matthew Fox despair courage inspirational To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero. Matthew Fox zero wise Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well. Matthew Fox self-confidence positive-thinking spiritual Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything. Matthew Fox judgment differences beautiful 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. Matthew Fox illusion pain beautiful Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary. Matthew Fox awareness should order
