One and the Same

I found another poem which is food for thought:

The Soul of Thoughts
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
Think only on those things that are in line with your principles
and can bear the full light of day.
The content of your character is your choice.
Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is what you become.
Your integrity is your destiny…it is the light that guides your way.
Heraclitus- Greek Poet

What I am, what I do ...
may be governed by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation
0r is my subconscious accumulating a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance ?

I am random...I am chaotic at times
and I allow myself to respond to impulse, gut feeling and 'heart'.
But now I realise, that in many ways, the head and the heart can work in tandem. That even when we do things instinctively, the head could already be two steps ahead..and that is why, the body responds accordingly.

"Reason stems from self-awareness; its function is to perceive that which exists by organizing observational data. It has the power to direct its own actions and check its conclusions, the power to maintain a certain relationship to the facts of reality.
Emotion, by contrast, is a faculty not of perception, but of reaction to one's perceptions. This kind of faculty has no power of observation and no volition; it has no means of independent access to reality, no means to guide its own course, and no capacity to monitor its own relationship to facts." - (adapted from Objective Philosophy)

So rather than ponder about contradictions, I should accept that reason and emotion keep each other in check. In fact, they work in harmony. The rational and irrational; the pragmatist and the dreamer, the optimist and the pessimist, are all within the same...They exist within my being.