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.
Matthew FoxPrayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.
Matthew FoxCompassion 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.
Matthew FoxTo connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.
Matthew FoxI'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.
Matthew Fox