Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ou…

Thomas Merton
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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
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