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

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Matthew Fox
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: July 14
Actor
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Television Actor
Abington Township
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania
Matthew Chandler Fox
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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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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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It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
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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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I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!
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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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Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.
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