The world you see is a false image you have fashioned of yourself. You try to climb an imaginary staircase. You ascend steps of judgement that reinforce that image. A staircase without end.
You do not surrender attack thoughts for their own sake, but to surrender the false image you have fashioned of yourself. Each time you surrender a mental attack, you gradually open the back door leading to what is true within you.
From the other side of that door, your real thoughts call to you: your creations of perfect Love together with God. You free your mind from its own judgement and condemnation. You free your mind from that image that does not faithfully represent you.
A peaceful mind is one that has stopped flagellating itself.
Those who are willing to see will see.
That is the willingness to remember.
That is the willingness to awaken.