To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river. Matthew Fox More Quotes by Matthew Fox More Quotes From Matthew Fox 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. Matthew Fox awe-and-wonder gratitude cutting What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness. Matthew Fox togetherness compassion feelings I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time. Matthew Fox spiritual believe art A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet. Matthew Fox heart war civilization I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us! Matthew Fox darkness thinking Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself. Matthew Fox weakness compassion might I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can. Matthew Fox play trying character We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. 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. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us. Matthew Fox cracks blow beauty I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone. Matthew Fox careers gone want 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. Matthew Fox careers television thinking Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts. Matthew Fox expression self heart 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. Matthew Fox sacred-feminine masculine passion 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. Matthew Fox mean way thinking I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people. Matthew Fox pressure people thinking After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again. Matthew Fox lost jobs needs The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain. Matthew Fox pain compassion heart We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us. Matthew Fox cosmos Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits. Matthew Fox spirit animal needs Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person. Matthew Fox tropical paradise kind 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? Matthew Fox mirrors change stupid
