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.
Kahlil Gibran
