Friday Filosophy

This is particularly apt to hold onto while we are listening to recession news…

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.

- Erich Fromm, from "The Art of Loving"