History: The Prophet: On Reason and Passion

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||On Reason & Passion|
And the priestess spoke again and said:|
"Speak to us of Reason and Passion."|
And he answered saying:|
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.|
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 our 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.|
I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house.|
Surely you would not honour 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 in passion.| ||

||((The Prophet|The Prophet)) |le prije ctuca / le pijyctu (the wise teacher)
((The Prophet: The Coming of the Ship)) |.i nu selklama le bloti
((The Prophet: On Love)) |lo ka prami
((The Prophet: On Marriage)) |lo nu speni
((The Prophet: On Children)) |lo  panzi
((The Prophet: On Giving)) |lo nu dunda
((The Prophet: On Eating and Drinking)) |lo nu citka je pinxe
((The Prophet: On Work)) |lo zu'o gunka
((The Prophet: On Joy and Sorrow)) |lo li'i gleki je badri
((The Prophet: On Houses)) |lo zdani
((The Prophet: On Clothes)) |lo taxfu
((The Prophet: On Buying and Selling)) |lo nu tevecnu je vecnu
((The Prophet: On Crime and Punishment)) |lo zekri .e lo nu sfasa
((The Prophet: On Laws)) |lo flalu
((The Prophet: On Freedom)) |lo za'i zifre
((The Prophet: On Reason and Passion)) | lo nu krinu pensi .e lo se cinmo
((The Prophet: On Pain)) | lo nu dunku
((The Prophet: On Self-Knowledge)) | lo nu sevzi djuno
((The Prophet: On Teaching)) | lo nu ctuca
((The Prophet: On Friendship)) | lo nu pendo
((The Prophet: On Talking)) | lo nu tavla
((The Prophet: On Time)) | lo temci
((The Prophet: On Good and Evil)) | lo ka vrude .e lo ka pacna
((The Prophet: On Prayer)) | lo nu jdaselsku
((The Prophet: On Pleasure)) | lo za'i pluka
((The Prophet: On Beauty)) | lo ka melbi
((The Prophet: On Religion)) | lo lijde
((The Prophet: On Death)) | lo nu morsi
((The Prophet: The Farewell)) | le nu cusku zo co'o||
History: The Prophet: On Reason and Passion

Source of version: 2 (current)

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