"There is nothing more to conquer, an ocean of peace lay before me. To be free, as I view myself to be, is to realize that all conquest is vain. Even the conquest of self, which is the last laugh of egotism. To be joyous is to carry the ego to its last summit and deliver it triumphantly. To know peace is total. It is the moment after when the surrender is complete, when there is no longer even a conscientiousness of surrender, that peace is at the center."
