self-conception

Updated: May 29, 2025

Let them enter the path, facing all things in life and death with a mood at once gay and reverent, as beseems those who are immortal who are children today, but whose hands tomorrow may grasp the sceptre, sitting down with the Gods as equals and companions. "What a man thinks, that he is: that is the old secret." In this self-conception lies the secret of life, the way of escape and return.

George William Russell - Imaginations and Reveries