Unconditional love
In psychology, unconditional love refers to a state of mind in which one has the goal of increasing the welfare of another, despite the lack of any evidence of benefit for oneself.
[citation needed] Humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers spoke of an unconditional positive regard and dedication towards one single support.
Rogers stated that the individual needed an environment that provided them with genuineness, authenticity, openness, self-disclosure, acceptance, empathy, and approval.
[7] In Man's Search for Meaning, logotherapist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl draws parallels between the human capacity to love unconditionally and living a meaningful life.
Frankl writes: "Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Using the fMRI procedure, mothers watched a video of themselves playing with their children in a familiar environment, like home.
The procedure found part of the amygdala and nucleus accumbens were responsive on levels of emotion and empathy.
This comes from the concept of God sending His only Son, Jesus Christ down from heaven to earth to die on a cross in order to take the punishment for all of humanity's sins.
If someone chooses to believe in this, commonly called "The Gospel", then Jesus' price on the cross pays for their sins so they can freely enter into heaven, and not hell.
God's discipline can be viewed as conditional based on people's choices, but His actual love through Jesus is unconditional, and this is where some may become confused.
The civil rights leader and Pastor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was quoted as saying "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality".
In relative bodhicitta, one learns about the desire to gain the understanding of unconditional love, which in Buddhism is expressed as loving-kindness and compassion.
Bhakti or bhakthi is unconditional[citation needed] religious devotion of a devotee in worship of a divine.
[citation needed] Rabia of Basra was the one who first set forth the doctrine of divine love known as ishq-e-haqeeqi[16] and is widely considered to be the most important of the early renunciants, one mode of piety that would eventually become labeled as Sufism.
[19] According to Sultan Bahoo, Ishq means to serve God unconditionally by devoting one's entire life to Him and asking no reward in return.
[citation needed] Mohism, China around 500 BCE, bases its entire premise on the supremacy of such an element, comparing one's duty to the indiscriminate generosity of "The Sky", or "Heaven", in contrast to Confucianism, which based its model of society on family love and duty.
Unitarian Universalism, though not having a set religious creed or doctrine, generally accepts the belief that all human beings are worthy and in need of unconditional love though charity in the community and spiritual understanding.
