Everything in life comes and goes. This thought can be terrifying until we realize that the temporary nature of life is the reason life continues. If everything we perceive in our world were to remain the same, we would not experience the changing of the seasons, the splendid display of flowers, the births of babies, the beginnings of friendships and the end of suffering. Change is a constant we can embrace, as long as we don’t allow ourselves to get too attached to whatever or whomever comes into our life. But we don’t embrace the loss of loved ones or friends because we have caught a glimpse of ourselves in them, and in losing them we believe that we lose a part of ourselves. If we are one spirit, one love, nothing is lost, just transformed. Nothing has gone anywhere, because the only real place is here,now. Love simply is. Love does not come and go, it expresses relentlessly as the essence of our being. When we embrace the loving essence of all we love, we are transformed.