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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430854" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reason and Passion XV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered saying: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">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. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">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. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since you are a breath In God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430854" data-title="Reason and Passion XV de Khalil Gibran" data-description="And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion." And he answered saying: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. Would ..."></div> </div> </div>
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