songs of faith and science

“To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern–and to take the jump and stake everything on these values." 

–from The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

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"Everyone I know is lonely
And God’s so far away,
And my heart belongs to no one,
So now sometimes I pray
Please take the space between us
And fill it up some way.
Take the space between us
Fill it up. Fill it up.”

“Whether there is harmony or conflict. joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves." 

–from The Art of Loving

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"I am a scientist - I seek to understand me
All of my impurities and evils yet unknown
I am a journalist - I write to you to show you
I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me”

“Immature love says, ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.’”

–from The Art of Loving

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“Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart.”