Matthew Fox Quotes

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

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.

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.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

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

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.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

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

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.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

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.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

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.

To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

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

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

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.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

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.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

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.

Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

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

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.

After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

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.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

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

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

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

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

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.

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

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

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've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.