What did Jesus say about the Golden Rule?

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From the Sermon on the Mount to the discourse of the Last Supper, Jesus taught his followers to manifest fatherly love rather than brotherly love. Brotherly love would love your neighbor as you love yourself, and that would be adequate fulfillment of the "golden rule." But fatherly affection would require that you should love your fellow mortals as Jesus loves you. ~ The Urantia Book, 140:5:1 (1573.3)

The golden rule as restated by Jesus demands active social contact; the older negative rule could be obeyed in isolation. Jesus stripped morality of all rules and ceremonies and elevated it to majestic levels of spiritual thinking and truly righteous living. ~ The Urantia Book, 140:10:5 (1585.3)

And when such spirit-led mortals realize the true meaning of this golden rule, they are filled to overflowing with the assurance of citizenship in a friendly universe, and their ideals of spirit reality are satisfied only when they love their fellows as Jesus loved us all, and that is the reality of the realization of the love of God. ~ The Urantia Book, 180:5:8 (1950.3)

This is the essence of true religion: that you love your neighbor as yourself. ~ The Urantia Book, 180:5:7 (1950.2)