How do we know if what we believe and say is helpful or not?

Remember that you choose the guide for helping, and the wrong choice will not help. But remember also that the right one will. Trust Him, for help is His function, and He is of God. As you awaken other minds to the Holy Spirit through Him, and not yourself, you will understand that you are not obeying the laws of this world. But the laws you are obeying work. “The good is what works” is a sound though insufficient statement. Only the good can work. Nothing else works at all. T-9.V.8: 9-16

A Course in Miracles (p. 327). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

How do we know if what we believe and say is helpful or not? Is it from the Holy Spirit or from the ego? If our beliefs and speech is from the ego, it will not help. But if our beliefs and speech is from the Holy Spirit it will. How to tell the difference? If it is from a place of conditional love, it is from the ego. If it is from the place of unconditional love, it is from the Holy Spirit.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Does this search take us to the realm of the ego or to the realm of the Holy Spirit?

Today it is suggested that we be mindful of the place in which we place our faith: the world of the ego or the world of the Holy Spirit.