Immerse yourself in a powerful and thought-provoking poetry reading of "On Reason and Passion" by the renowned Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran, beautifully narrated by Shane Morris. This timeless literary masterpiece explores the internal battlefield of the human soul, where reason and passion constantly wage war against one another. Through rich metaphors of sails and rudders, Gibran offers profound philosophical insights on how to balance intellect and emotion to achieve true inner peace and harmony in life.#KhalilGibran#ReasonAndPassion#PoetryReading#Philosophy#SpiritualPoetry#ShaneMorris#TheProphet#InspirationalPoetry#InnerPeace#literature
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This poetic discourse explores the internal conflict between reason and passion, arguing that a fulfilled soul requires the harmony of both. Rather than viewing them as opposing forces, the speaker presents them as complementary tools—the rudder and the sails—that must work in unison to navigate the journey of life and achieve spiritual wholeness.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield upon which your reason and your judgment
wage war against your passion and your appetite. With 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.
But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay the lovers of all your elements?
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, unattending, 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.
I would have you consider your judgments and your appetite, even as you would two loved guests
in your house. Surely you would not honor one guest above the other, for he who is more mindful
of one loses the love and the faith of both. 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.
