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

Matthew Fox

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Matthew Fox
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: July 14
Actor
Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
Abington Township
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania
Matthew Chandler Fox
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Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.
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Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
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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 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.
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When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.
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Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.
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I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!
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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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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.
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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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Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.
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Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
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We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.
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The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.
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The only way to learn compassion is through your heart you have to back up and pass through your own pain.
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Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.
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