Reason and Passion

"Your Reason and your passion are the rudder and sails of your seafaring soul. If either 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."
--Kahlil Gibran

In life, often we are presented with situations where our minds see one thing and our hearts feel something completely different. What is in our heart, is something that we know would bring us happiness, but it is our minds, our reason if you will, that justifies not going after these things. Our reason tells us that there is too much to lose. Our reason tells us that it is not worth it. So, too often we just sit. We sit confined in our reason, our heart still yearning for its one true desire. Those who break loose of reason may find freedom in so doing, but this world is a world unknown. Our desires may, as written, burn their own destruction.

We must find a healthy dichotomy between our reason and our passion. For if we follow the one, we will ultimately live in world where we are imprisoned by our own hesitations; and if we follow the other we will live in a world full of peril. However, if we allow our passions and our desires guide us to the things we want most, and allow our reason to check in-- keep us from making a grave mistake-- we will have arrived.