Matthew Fox
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.Collection: Inspirational
Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.Collection: Spiritual
Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.Collection: Paradise
There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.Collection: Cracks
Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.Collection: Grace
Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.Collection: Makeup
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.Collection: Beautiful
When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.Collection: Passion
Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.Collection: Beautiful
Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.Collection: Justice
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.Collection: Jobs
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.Collection: Inspirational
The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.Collection: Pain
Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.Collection: Heart
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.Collection: Past
Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.Collection: Spiritual
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.Collection: Spiritual
A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.Collection: War
Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.Collection: Life
Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Animal
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?Collection: Change
Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.Collection: Animal
Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.Collection: Order
To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Christian