Matthew Fox Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

  Matthew Fox

  Pain, Laughter, Silly

• 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.

  Matthew Fox

  Cracks, Patterns, Awareness

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

  Matthew Fox

  Order, Awareness, Should

• Compassion 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 Fox

  Compassion, Weakness, Might

  Matthew Fox (1999). “A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Matthew Fox

  Spiritual, Healing, Self

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