The greatest gift is peace.
In truth, there is no greater gift for oneself, or to give someone.
If one can be always full of peace, then one will always be peaceful towards everyone.
If you can be peaceful towards someone 100% of the time, this is the greatest gift you can give them. In this sense, ahimsA paramo dharmah.
This does not mean you need to agree with everything they do, or that you will accept everything they do without a murmur. Rather, if you can peacefully practice the yogic attitude of
maitrI karuNA muditA upekshANAm sukha dukha puNya apuNya bhAvanatah cetah prasAdanam
Friendliness, compassion, delight and indifference towards pleasant, sad, virtuous and unrighteouus or wicked behavior, respectively, then these result in tranquillity of mind.
Then love as loving compassion and feeling of oneness without distinction arise naturally.
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