Passion and Discipline, Secrets to life?

Passion and discipline. I have come to believe that most if not all of life boils down to balancing the two.

I know, passion is the loud one, right? Drawing attention, ignoring the naysayers hopeful and energetic. So attractive, free and easy to love. But the dark side of passion is that it will work to control you, to seduce you into thinking it is worth sacrificing all else to feed it–all the while projecting a self efficating persona that lives in the ever isolating valley of “this is just who I am.”