Would that I could..................

      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?

-Kahlil Gibran, from his passage on Reason and Passion in The Prophet