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It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages. . . . We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed. . . to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short, to be alive.

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Matthew Fox, PhD, is an American priest and theologian who was expelled from the Dominican Order within the Catholic Church in 1993 and become a member of the Episcopal Church. Fox has written over thirty books on spirituality and contemporary culture and has devoted over forty years to developing and teaching the tradition of Creation Spirituality. His work is inclusive of contemporary science and world spiritual traditions and features the earth-based mystical tradition of the West.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLife’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne of my greatest lessons at this point in my life is that there is no there. There's only here.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOnly awareness of your shadow qualities can help you to find an appropriate place for your unredeemed darkness and thereby create a more satisfying experience.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAvoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHappiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart’s willingness to feel whatever is present.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLetting go of anger and hate requires us to give up the hope for a different past, along with the hope of a fantasized future. What we gain is a life more in the present, where we are not mired in prolonged anger and resentment that doesn’t serve us.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBut one of the hallmarks of emotional maturity is to recognize the validity of multiple realities and to understand that people think, feel, and react differently. Often we behave as if ‘closeness’ means ‘sameness.’

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThere is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

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