Every response to the ego is a call to war, and war does deprive you of peace. Yet in this war there is no opponent. This is the reinterpretation of reality that you must make to secure peace, and the only one you need ever make. Those whom you perceive as opponents are part of your peace, which you are giving up by attacking them. How can you have what you give up? You share to have, but you do not give it up yourself. When you give up peace, you are excluding yourself from it. This is a condition so alien to the Kingdom that you cannot understand the state that prevails within it. T-8.I.3:1-8
A Course in Miracles (p. 280). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
The response of the ego is conditional love. Whenever you love conditionally there is always a price you pay. The price you pay for loving conditionally is you give up peace because you have set conditions which must exist in order for you to experience happiness. Do you really want to do this? Is this price of losing peace worth the conditions you set?
In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This inherent worth and dignity makes our unconditional love appropriate.
Today it is suggested that we ask ourselves, “Would I love conditionally or unconditionally?” Peace or anxiety will be your experience depending on your choice,
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