Feelings are always rational. They are responses to what I might call “your sense of self” to environmental stimuli. They can be altered with cognitive patterns, but when you feel them, they are real, and there is no use pretending otherwise. That is the path of reason.
What is often called the path of reason is the SUPPRESSION of emotion, purportedly in the name of logic and dispassion. You cannot be dispassionate: you can merely be passionate consciously, or unconsciously.
To be clear, when you look at someone like Ayn Rand, she was PASSIONATE, but she also had a large quantity of emotions in the background which were completely invisible to her, and made so by her cognitive and emotional habits.