Original Blessing Quotes

“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, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions

“The doctrine of the Incarnation is itself an invitation to all believers to love the earth, cherish it, find the divine in it.”
― Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions

“The letting go of patriarchy which creates one-sided citizens of women and men alike and culminates in violent living and violent relationships.”
― Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions

“Western civilization has preferred love of death to love of life to the very extent that its religious traditions have preferred redemption to creation, sin to ecstasy, and individual introspection to cosmic awareness and appreciation.”
― Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality - Presented in Four Paths, 26 Themes and Two Questions

“Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.”
― Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions

“Without this solid grounding in creation's powers we become bored, violent people. We become necrophiliacs in love with death”
― Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions