If you can live it and die by it, it is true

We as human beings, are the masters of our destinies, and our lives are proof of what we believe. Jesus not only lived by the truth that he realized and spoke it, he died by it, as a deliberate and conscious decision.

How many of us are capable of dying for something that we believe is true, with full awareness and consciousness of its implications? Only when we come face to face with death (not in a state of madness or inebriation, or a state of fear and despair, but in a detached state of calm and deliberate awareness), we come face to face with truth. Those who embrace death without fear have realized truth. Those who conquer death while being alive have realized the very truth of life itself.