The ego, on the other hand, always demands reciprocal rights, because it is competitive rather than loving. It is always willing to strike a bargain, but it cannot understand that to be like another means that no bargains are possible. To gain you must give, not bargain. To bargain is to limit giving, and this is not God’s Will. To will with God is to create like Him. God does not limit His gifts in any way. You are His gifts, and so your gifts must be like His. Your gifts to the Kingdom must be like His gifts to you. T-7.I.4:1-8
A Course in Miracles (p. 244). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
The world of the ego believes only in conditional love. The Kingdom Of God is based on unconditional love. In the world of the ego people give to get. In the Kingdom of God people give because it gives them joy to do so.
In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. The Universalists believed in and promoted the unconditional love of the Transcendent Source of Creation.
Today it is suggested that we consider whether we will love unconditionally or conditionally. To love conditionally is necessary sometimes in the world of the ego and to love unconditionally is to extend the creative power of our Transcendent Source.
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