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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
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Abington Township
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania
Matthew Chandler Fox
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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.
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Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.
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We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.
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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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Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
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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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