Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Matthew Fox - Page 2

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.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

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.

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.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.