Reason and Passion

"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against 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.

For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

from "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran