Learn to let your love of exploring new and open spaces replace all of the ever-diminishing pleasures... found in all the old familiar places...
The fear-filled, anxious self loves one feeling, and one feeling only: getting all heated up over the "fire" it just ignited in the dark of its imaginary life, so that then it has something it must rush to... to put it out!...
Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless, (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies.
Denial
The (Light of) Love never makes a mistake... but, in fact, never fails to “remake” the heart of whoever not only agrees to embrace the truth it reveals...
If we won’t let love show us all that remains hidden within us -- that hurts us, as it does those we would never want to harm -- then it can't do its Divinely appointed work of helping to heal us.
Only in the conscious awareness of our (own) suffering is awakened and apperceived the appearance of a Divine Light: The Presence of a perfectly loving Intelligence that reveals and conceives -- all at once -- the possibility of an immaculate compassion.
In the end, the kindest thing we can do for others is to always remember – as best we can – that within each of us lives the one true source of understanding, of compassion and love, and then strive to be that (spirit) for one and all.
There is no love in thought. There is no understanding in knowledge...
The forgiveness inherent in Love isn't because it forgets those who have hurt us; but rather because it knows there is no separate self, and that we are the first to suffer the pain we would wish on any other.