Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary. 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 strongprayerheart Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. Matthew Fox essentialsjourneyspiritual 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-forwardfitprocess 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 selfspiritualhealing Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace. Matthew Fox sorrowgraceway 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 sweetlifepeople 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 fourspaceislands I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience. Matthew Fox episodespartyends 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 fightingspaceletting-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 cinemawantstuff I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you. Matthew Fox smartchoicesthinking 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 eightwantyears 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 comedyblondesorry The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people. Matthew Fox coercioninspirationalpeople It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner. Matthew Fox despaircourageinspirational To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero. Matthew Fox zerowise 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-confidencepositive-thinkingspiritual Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything. Matthew Fox judgmentdifferencesbeautiful 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 illusionpainbeautiful 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-wondergratitudecutting
