You're caught between faith and reason

I was a rigorous scholar of the law before I became a mystic, and my mind did not die for my heart to open, so I meet this supposed war between faith and reason as one who has held both. Faith and reason answer different questions — reason excels at questions of fact and mechanism, how things work in the measurable world, while faith addresses meaning, value, purpose, and the sacred, which reason is not built to answer, so they are not rival answers to the same question but two faculties for different questions, and a full life uses both. You can be both rigorous and open — the best seekers keep a mind that thinks clearly and refuses nonsense and a heart that stays open to the sacred beyond what the mind can prove, so you need not amputate either faculty. And let each correct the other rather than one defeating the other — reason guards faith against credulity while faith guards reason against the arrogance of thinking the measurable is all there is, for faith without reason drifts into nonsense and reason without faith hardens into a meaning-blind literalism. Give each its domain, hold both. Where do you feel the pull most sharply?