We must reconcile mind and soul. Not choose one or the other, but learn the art of gracefully balancing the two.

It is not an easy task, and most give it up without much reflection, rushing ever faster away from the dark and quiet places where the soul speaks. The soul may be wise, but the mind is loud and speaks in our language.

But while the mind gives us a means of progress, it is the soul that tells us where to go. Without the mind, one is paralyzed, but without the soul, one is directionless, zipping along endless highways to nowhere, pausing only to guzzle more fuel.

I believe that there is in fact a route, but I believe it is beyond the capacity of grasping human minds. It is written in each of our souls and it is only by facing our greatest fear- reality, separate and distinct from the chatter of our minds, and perhaps incomprehensible- and then embracing our experience of it, that we find our true direction.

Use your head, always. It is your means of going. But go carefully, and trust your soul to show you the way.

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“I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answers…” (Rainer Maria Rilke)