The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.
Matthew FoxPrayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.
Matthew FoxThe 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.
Matthew FoxWhen the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.
Matthew Fox