• Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

    Thomas Merton: Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
    Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.33, Macmillan