Will you nail yourself to the cross for this?

"For if you try to save your life you will lose it, but if you lose your life for the divine you will save it."^[1]

"A true narrative, of a journey such as it was truly lived, is to be prized. And this is not because of renown which is attributed to the narrator, but simply by virtue of its existence, and of its truthfulness. Such a testimony is precious, whether it comes someone illustrious, a small clerk with no future, or from a common criminal."^[2]

"No man is free who is a slave to the body... slavery to the opinion of others, to money, to ambition, to fear. Throw aside all these things, and stand revealed to yourself; you do not yet know who you are. To be free, you must become a slave to divinity."^[3]

Will you nail yourself to the cross for this.