An equilibrium between reason and passion – between head and heart – is one of the essentials of Life Balance.  It has been said that when the mind and the heart go to war, the body becomes the battlefield.

The mind allows us to think, to reason, and to apply our wisdom to make a difference. The heart is where we feel.  Through it, we love and use our creativity without inhibition. When we merge education of the mind with education of the heart, we strike a dynamic balance.  We look with “both eyes” – the eye of the heart and the eye of the mind.  We look at life as a whole, realizing that one element affects the other.

Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel peace prize laureate and first black Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, stresses the importance of a balance in our relationships with others.
“In our African language,” he notes, “we say, ‘a person is a person through other persons.’  I would not know how to be a human being at all, except I learned this from other human beings.  We are made for a delicate network of relationships, of interdependence.  We are meant to complement each other…. not even the most powerful nation can be completely self-sufficient.”

Reason without passion is lame, and passion without reason is blind. Reason alone is dull, whereas passion alone can lead to destruction. When we marry the two, we have a wonderful synergy.  Reason and Passion are like two wings of the bird!