One of my favorite books of all time is The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to follow my passion and reconcile it with my more logical mind. Gibran, of course, puts it all into perspective. Consider this excerpt from his book:
“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 at 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 life through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
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.”
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.”
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.”
Richly Beautiful! Thanks for there exquisite words…
Thank you, Sherri! I love Gibran.