It's like an alarm system. It tells me there is danger, but it is not the danger. You understand it very well. Fear is a response to the absence of love, and is healed by bringing love present with it, by acceptance of it. The opposite of love is hate, not fear.
Love is the heart of acceptance, and hate is the heart of denial.
It is hate and denial that cause pain, and it is love and acceptance that heal. Love is the feeling one has when opening to another, as the Mother opened to me in the beginning. Opening to create space for someone or something is the act of acceptance, the act of love. Acceptance includes and heals. Denial and hatred, on the other hand, take away space, close it off to someone or something, creating a gap between the denier and the denied.