Matthew Fox Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

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

  Matthew Fox

  Compassion, Feelings, Togetherness

  Matthew Fox (1999). “A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice”, p.4, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

• The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

  Matthew Fox

  Pain, Heart, Compassion

• When 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

  Passion, Sacred Feminine, Masculine

  Matthew Fox (2010). “The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine”, p.20, New World Library

• 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

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