It is a pity that there is no sure thing... or is that our greatest blessing?

It is a pity that there is no sure thing... or is that our greatest blessing? Your insecure self rails at your walking towards your dreams. It is completely against it. Our small mind plays such fearful games with us. I discovered a constant. Would you like to know what that is? It is “I have to.” “I have to stay here, I have to do this.” That is when I turned and walked away.

I discovered this too: That we don’t lose anything because we don’t really have anything! I spoke many volumes on this point alone.

If there is one constant, sure thing, it is the miracle you are, wherever you are, whenever you find yourself there. You are not bound, you are blessed. We all come to the end of the road, but there are 12 new roads, 12 new paths and more.

As a human being we identify always with loss, but as I speak to you, to the soul within, I feel no loss at all! What I feel is the next step, what I feel is the ascension that you long for. You do not lack for bravery. So I suggest that you at least allow yourself to explore. And I likewise suggest that you might be very pleasantly surprised!
Buddha

What does it mean to be brave?

What does it mean to be brave?  How does one justify an act of bravery?  There are armies of humans that were brave and died, and there are the brave that lived and yet died. 

What is bravery?  Is it strength?  Commitment?  Action?  All of these things and more?  If bravery is the light, immersing oneself in it to such a degree that there is no fear, oh, evil might exist on the periphery of such a light, but that light cuts and that light purifies and the brave become that light.  And such a light goes with that soul to the grave.

There is another way to be brave, it is called neutrality.  When all else would demand the soul take position one way or another, remaining neutral becomes the badge of courage, becomes the poise.  Sometimes we must rise and spirit becomes us so magnificently that we are deaf and blind and dumb to all else but maintaining love. 

Rumi