When it’s all said and done, what really matters?

Attack could never promote attack unless you perceived it as a means of depriving you of something you want. Yet you cannot lose anything unless you do not value it, and therefore do not want it. This makes you feel deprived of it, and by projecting your own rejection you then believe that others are taking it from you. You must be fearful if you believe that your brother is attacking you to tear the Kingdom of Heaven from you. This is the ultimate basis for all the ego’s projection. T-7.VII.8: 1-5

A Course in Miracles (p. 266). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The above passage about attack depriving us of something we value is the idea of the Buddha who taught that suffering is due to attachment. When we are attached and we perceive a threat to that to which we are attached, we become fearful and defensive and/or attack back. Supposing we were attached to the things that are being threatened? We wouldn’t care one way or the other if we lost them. In such a state of mind we would be at peace.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person which can never be threatened because of its inherency.

Today it is suggested that we reflect on what we are attached to and what’s really important to us when it's all said and done.