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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.

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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A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.
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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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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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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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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'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
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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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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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To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.
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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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It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
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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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Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.
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A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
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Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.
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