Mountain Rose

Journey of a Medicine Woman
2002-09-09 20:14:38 (UTC)

of Reason and Passion

of Reason and 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 your 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 pasison 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 the mid-
seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passin,
unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt oyur 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 judgement 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 lightining 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.




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