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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
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Abington Township
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania
Matthew Chandler Fox
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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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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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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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To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.
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Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.
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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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Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.
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A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.
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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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We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.
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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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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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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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Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.
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To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.
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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.
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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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We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.
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