Quotes from Matthew Fox

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

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.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

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

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.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

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.

Any time I need to be really physical, and a role requires that, you're kind of viscerally activated by being that physical in it. It takes away the thought process, which is fun.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

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.

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.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

What is contemplation? Says Aquinas: "Contemplation regards the simple act of gazing on truth.

Starr recognizes the importance of Julian's message reaching the entire world, rather than being hoarded by religionists of one stripe, when she remarks that Julian's work is "for the sake of all spiritual seekers everywhere."13

God is voluptuous and delicious. — Meister Eckhart

Rumi speaks often of the power of silence to take us to what we are looking for. In one poem he says: We search for him here and there while looking right at Him. Sitting at His side we ask, "O Beloved, where is the Beloved?" Enough with such questions! — Let silence take you to the core of life. All your talk is worthless When compared to one whisper of the Beloved.

When I pounded ninety-five theses at the Wittenberg doors in 2005 shortly after Ratzinger was made pope, I did so knowing that this man and his minions were a dangerous team to turn the church over to.

Western civilization has preferred love of death to love of life to the very extent that its religious traditions have preferred redemption to creation, sin to ecstasy, and individual introspection to cosmic awareness and appreciation.

the first good thing is the goodness of nature."40 Here she tells us to get out of our own stuckness with the human condition and open our eyes and hearts to the abundant goodness found in nature.