Author Archives: Bob Patrick

Love Is the Core

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Bob Patrick

Love really is at the core of it all. Love is the core because we human beings are feeling beings. We do not live a moment of a single day of our lives without the energy of feelings running through … Continue reading →

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Companions on the Way

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Bob Patrick

Recently I was at the gym. I was using some weights in one corner of the gym, and next to me was a large leg press machine. The platform that one has to stand on to use that machine is … Continue reading →

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Love and Interdependence

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Bob Patrick

If I am honest, the hook for me in Unitarian Universalism for the last 20 years has always been what we have called during that time the “seventh principle:” the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a … Continue reading →

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Liberating Love–Letting Go

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Bob Patrick

I find a lot of meaning in seeing patterns, symbols, shapes and repeating dynamics. Anytime. Anywhere. With any set of relationships. When I see a pattern or repeating dynamic or a symbol of a thing that is important to me, … Continue reading →

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Love and Justice

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Bob Patrick

Justice is another one of those words–the kind that can hold almost entirely opposite meanings, and where context means everything. When the “justice system” sentences a human being to prison time and fines of money, it is imposing punishment for … Continue reading →

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Love and Generosity

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Bob Patrick

When we bring love to our understanding of generosity, we transform it from a synonym for charity to the act of creativity that is true generosity. Consider the people across your life who have done something good, kind and thoughtful … Continue reading →

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Love and Pluralism

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Bob Patrick

Somewhere in all of our early education, we learned the word “plus.” It was a part of our earliest math lessons: one plus one equals two. At a more sophisticated age (maybe middle school) we might have been found saying … Continue reading →

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