Creativity as Divine intimacy flows thro... - Matthew Fox - Quotes.Pub

Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. “God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge,” says Eckhart.

Creativity Quotes

Matthew Fox Quotes

The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.

Strong Quotes

The doctrine of the Incarnation is itself an invitation to all believers to love the earth, cherish it, find the divine in it.

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

Who we thought we were dies when a beloved dies. And it takes a while for a new self to rise, often haltingly, from the ashes of our ravaged hearts.

Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God’s sword would smite him? Who is this woman.

Who is this woman who preached of the “web of life” that all creation shares, but who warned that “the earth must not be injured, the earth must not be destroyed” – and that if humans misuse creation, “God will permit creation to punish humanity”?

As Rabbi Heschel teaches, humanity will be saved not by more information, but by more appreciation.

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

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

Julian, by calling us to interfere with patriarchy and heal the wounds that it has wracked upon human history and the human soul and the earth, beckons us from folly to wisdom. Are we listening?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me. – Meister Eckhart.

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