What makes us afraid to love unconditionally?

Produced by fear, the ego reproduces fear. This is its allegiance, and this allegiance makes it treacherous to love because you are love. Love is your power, which the ego must deny. It must also deny everything this power gives you because it gives you everything. No one who has everything wants the ego. Its own maker, then, does not want it. Rejection is therefore the only decision the ego could possibly encounter, if the mind that made it knew itself. And if it recognized any part of the Sonship, it would know itself. T-7.VI.4:6-12

A Course in Miracles (p. 259). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The ego is produced by the separation from the non dualistic Oneness which some call “God.” This separation induces fear of punishment from what it has done in separating itself from its Source. Our Source is unconditional love and in this resides our creative power when we extend it. When we are unaware of this power of unconditional love, or deny it, ignore it, or refuse to extend it because the extension would undermine our separateness, and specialness, then we are anxious, depressed, and distressed. The choice we have is between the hell of the ego or the heaven of our Transcendent Source. This can be simply put as “to have a friend, be a friend.”

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement of spiritual growth. The Universalists taught that God’s love is unconditional.

Today it is suggested that we consider what it is we are afraid of if we were to engage in unconditional loving.