Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox
Matthew Chandler Fox is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Charlie Salinger on Party of Five and Jack Shephard on the supernatural drama television series Lost...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth14 July 1966
CityAbington, PA
CountryUnited States of America
compassion might weakness
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.
jobs together why-we-are-here
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.
animal effort wilderness
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.
past personality catholic
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
spiritual doe alive
What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.
awe
Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.
patterns cracks awareness
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.
letting-go fighting space
Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.
thinking careers television
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.
islands space four
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.
grace sorrow way
Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.
spiritual journey essentials
Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.
inspirational courage despair
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
inspirational people coercion
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.