Rest in reason and move in Passion

‘Your soul is oftentimes a battle field, upon which your reason and your
judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be
the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of
your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I unless you yourselves be
also the peacemaker nay the lovers of your elements?
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason ruling alone is a force confining and
passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Therefore let
your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion that it may sing and let it
direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own
daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two
loves guests in your house.
Surely you would not honor one guest above the
other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of
both.
Among the hills when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars
sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadow then let your heart
say in silence ‘god rests in reason”
And when the storm comes, and the mighty
wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lighting proclaim the majesty of the
sky. Then let your heart say in awe ‘god moves in passion’
And since you are a breath in god’s sphere and a leave in god’s forest you too should rest in reason and move in passion.’
~Gibran khalil gibran's The Prophet