Reason and Passion

Your reason and your passion are your 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.

Therefoe , let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion , that it may sing;

And let it direct your passionwith reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.