"Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can……" — 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."
More Awareness Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
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- Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire
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- To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin
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- If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. — William Blake
- The eye altering, alters all. — William Blake